Jan 31 2019 11:43 AM
Hi guys,
I've a pretty large database in excel that's being used to merge to a mail merge doc. The database stretches to column MX but word is only picking up to column IV.
How can I get word to pick up the rest of the data as I need it in the mail merge document?
Thanks for helping!
Jan 31 2019 12:01 PM
Hi Alison,
Column IV is #256. Usually queries in office have 255 columns limit, as I remember Mail Merge is not an exception.
Jan 31 2019 12:03 PM
Hi Sergei,
Yep it's 256 going all the way up to 362. That's a bummer to say the least - would you know anyway around that?
Thank
Alison
Jan 31 2019 12:55 PM
Nope, sorry, I don't know workaround, work with Mail Merge once per few years. Do you really need all these 362 fields, perhaps you may modify your source to reduce number of fields?
Jan 31 2019 12:59 PM
Thanks Sergei,
I could look at separating them into different sheets but that complicates it somewhat -I tried doing that and needed to use paste link but it slowed the whole merge down and kept crashing both word and excel.
I appreciate your help though.
Feb 01 2019 02:33 AM
Hi Sergei,
Just letting you know I've had a solution - exporting the file to csv and merging that way seems to have done the trick.
Really appreciate your help.
Cheers
Feb 01 2019 10:30 AM
Alison, thanks for sharing. I'm surprised what from csv file you may merge 362 fields