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Can one
[Quoted Text] > expand or change this list of default field delimiters?
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Not as far as I know, at least not if you have more than 255 fields.
I don't know where your data originates, but faced with this problem I'd
probably either
- write code to extract the text as directly from the data source as I
could manage, and construct the Word document from that, or
- try to find a way to reduce the number of columns in the data source,
preferably so I could put the data in a word table. For example, suppose you
have 500 columns. Then such a method might create a Word document with 50
columns and 10 rows for each "original" record. Then you would have to use
9 { NEXT } fields in your mailmerge main document to consume each "original"
record.
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Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk
"ALK" <ALK[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> We are merging a large text file full of legalese . These documents
> contain
> paragraphs that could use any of the default field delimiters. Can one
> expand or change this list of default field delimiters? Is so, how? If
> not,
> any suggested work arounds?
>
> We cannot merge from Excel or Access because the data contain more fields
> than they can handle, i.e., > 255.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Al
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