Thread: [Solved] mail merge (more than 255 characters)
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Old 02-07-2012, 03:12 AM
spoednick spoednick is offline Windows 7 64bit Office 2010 32bit
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i was looking all over for this problem.
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Originally Posted by allenglishboy View Post
DDE was not an option.


here is the fix I had to end up doing. I read online that Word looks at the first 8 entries to see if they are over 255 characters, if they are not then it truncates anything over 255 characters SO i added an arbitrary bit of text to the first field So that it was over 255 characters. Then word let all the field be over 255 characters.
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