Try the different connection methods to the data source that will become
available if you check the "Confirm conversions at open" box under
Tools>Options>General in versions of Word before 2007 or "Confirm File
Format Conversion at open" under the General section of the Advanced Word
Options dialog (Start>Word Options>Advanced).
However, you will need to make sure that your data is organised so that in
the first records, you have a field that has more than 255 characters as
Word make a determination of what type of data is being merged based on the
content of the first couple of records in the data source.
An alternative maybe to create a number of files to contain the information
and use an { INCLUDETEXT } field to bring the information into the document.
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Hope this helps.
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services on a paid consulting basis.
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Jill Hoven" <Jill Hoven[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:21FB6E68-1ED1-4017-B7B1-187CE7658585[ at ]microsoft.com...
[Quoted Text] > I'm creating a glossary, merging from Excel into Word 2002. The merge
> itself
> is fine, but cuts off the definition if it's too long - the final merged
> document will only give me about 4 1/2 lines total. Example:
>
> Accident and health plan: An employer-provided plan giving employee fringe
> benefits through the payment of health and accident insurance premiums or
> employer funded medical reimbursement. Payments under such plans are
> generally deductible by the employer and not includable in inco
>
> I've never run into this problem before, and can't figure out where to
> increase the number of characters that the merge will allow??
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