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enlarge the size of the field
Lynsay 11/13/2008 11:43:02 AM
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.
Re: enlarge the size of the field
"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" <dkr[ at ]REMOVECAPSmvps.org> 11/13/2008 7:32:42 PM
Where is this field? In the data source? What is the data source?

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"Lynsay" <Lynsay[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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[Quoted Text]
> 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.


Re: enlarge the size of the field
"macropod" <macropod[ at ]invalid.invalid> 11/14/2008 12:38:23 AM
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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Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


"Lynsay" <Lynsay[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:EC599902-94F1-4BA7-83A3-B4B18B2D9C3C[ at ]microsoft.com...
[Quoted Text]
> 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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