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Form Field Quantity - Mail Merge
I have 84 columns of excel data to enter into a mail merge document.
Why are the fields being dropped after the 30th column? I am using Word 2003 - is there a field quantity limit that I am not aware of? If there is an issue with 2003 - would 2007 fix the problem? Thanks! Christine |
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Form Field Quantity - Mail Merge
From the Tools menu in Word, select Options and then go to the General tab
and check the box against the item "Confirm File Conversion on Open" Then when you attach the data source to the mail merge main document, a dialog box will appear in which you can specify the method by which the connection should be made. Try the different options and see if they make a difference. I am not really sure what you mean by the fields being dropped after the 30th column. You can always insert the fields directly from the keyboard by holding down the Ctrl key and then pressing F9 to insert a pair of field delimiters { } inside of which you type { MERGEFIELD "field name" } Pressing Alt+F9 to toggle off the display of the field codes will result in field name being displayed. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Snailspace" wrote in message ... I have 84 columns of excel data to enter into a mail merge document. Why are the fields being dropped after the 30th column? I am using Word 2003 - is there a field quantity limit that I am not aware of? If there is an issue with 2003 - would 2007 fix the problem? Thanks! Christine |
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Form Field Quantity - Mail Merge
Doug - you're the BEST!! For some reason my data was not importing
past the 30 columns - BUT when I changed the Option for the file conversion it worked!! I was able to pull in my other data! Thank you for the help!! Christine On Mar 14, 1:39*am, "Doug Robbins - Word MVP on news.microsoft.com" wrote: From the Tools menu in Word, select Options and then go to the General tab and check the box against the item "Confirm File Conversion on Open" *Then when you attach the data source to the mail merge main document, a dialog box will appear in which you can specify the method by which the connection should be made. *Try the different options and see if they make a difference. I am not really sure what you mean by the fields being dropped after the 30th column. *You can always insert the fields directly from the keyboard by holding down the Ctrl key and then pressing F9 to insert a pair of field delimiters { } inside of which you type { MERGEFIELD "field name" } Pressing Alt+F9 to toggle off the display of the field codes will result in field name being displayed. |
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