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AlanC - 09 May 2005 04:50 GMT

Is there a maximum size for a word document variable? I tried doing some
testing and it looks like it fails if I try to make a string longer than
about 65000 characters. If this is the case, is there a good way to link a
large amount of text to a field? I hoped to have fields within a document
that have other text associated with them.
Any info is appreciated.

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Jezebel - 09 May 2005 07:55 GMT

65280 is the maximum length.

> Is there a maximum size for a word document variable? I tried doing some
> testing and it looks like it fails if I try to make a string longer than
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> that have other text associated with them.
> Any info is appreciated.

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Roger Whitehead - 13 Jun 2005 10:10 GMT

Try something like;

{IF {DOCVARIABLE myDocVar} = 1, "" ""}

Between the "" that represent TruePart, Do an Insert File, to a file
containing your long text string. Clearly, this will need to be in an
accessible location for all users.

Now you just need a VBA routine to set the value of myDocVar to 1

If you're doing this in a mail-merge, the IF field can be set to assess the
values of DataFields to arrive at it's return value.

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HTH
Roger
Shaftesbury (UK)

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