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Old November 13th, 2008, 11:43 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields
Lynsay
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Doing a mail merge into a word document and in one field I need to type
rather alot of information but at the moment I can only type in so much. Is
there a way to make the field bigger and type in more information.
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Old November 13th, 2008, 07:32 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
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Where is this field? In the data source? What is the data source?

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Doing a mail merge into a word document and in one field I need to type
rather alot of information but at the moment I can only type in so much.
Is
there a way to make the field bigger and type in more information.



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Old November 14th, 2008, 12:38 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields
macropod[_2_]
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Hi Lynsay,

Presumably you're referring to a field in your datasource - one doesn't ordinarily type anything into fields in mailmerge documents
(ASK & FILLIN fields are the main exceptions, for which the character limit is about 200).

In addition, aside from any limitations imposed by your data source, you may run up against a 255 character limit for mergefields
with some connection methods. AFAIK, you can get around this by specifying the DDE connection method.

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"Lynsay" wrote in message ...
Doing a mail merge into a word document and in one field I need to type
rather alot of information but at the moment I can only type in so much. Is
there a way to make the field bigger and type in more information.


 




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