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Old March 13th, 2009, 07:02 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Snailspace
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Default 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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Old March 14th, 2009, 06:39 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Doug Robbins - Word MVP on news.microsoft.com
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Default 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.

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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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Old March 16th, 2009, 01:54 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Snailspace
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Default 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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