Using


Windows 7 (64bit), Word 2010 and Excel 2010 (32 bit)

I have found that Word 2010 Mail Merge will only allow a field length of 255. My source data is in an Excel spreadsheet.

I have seen a number of old posts that indicate that there is a work around. These were probably aimed at Word 2003 because I can get non of them to work on 2010.

Is there a way round this on Word 2010?

Many thanks,
Roy

Hi Roy,

See: http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk/t0003.htm
In particular, try using the method described under 'Change the way Word gets your data to "DDE"'

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]