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Originally Posted by Souriane
This is because there is more than 255 characters in your field. When you use OLE DB connection to do you merging, you can't have more than 255 characters.
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That's not correct.
When Word establishes the OLE DB connection, it tests the first ~8 records in each field to determine the data type. If those records contain text but none is more than 255 characters, Word treats it as a text field; if any of the records contains more than 255 characters, Word treats it as a memo field. Accordingly, all you need do in this case is ensure the first record, for example, contains more than 255 characters. You don't need to revert to the ancient DDE connection method.
This is all documented in the
Mailmerge Tips & Tricks 'sticky' thread (
https://www.msofficeforums.com/mail-...ps-tricks.html) at the top of this forum, under the heading
Mailmerge Data Format Problems.