Mail Merge: Text Limitation to 255 Characters? Can I change this?

[Allison Hancock]

I am having problems pulling the entirety of the text in some of the cells in Excel into the Word document while performing a mail merge. I am wondering if there is a limitation to how much text you can pull from Excel into Word, and if I can increase that limitation. It seems like 255 is the maximum number of characters it will pull from Excel.

I have already tried re-copying and pasting the information in the Excel cell.

And I have also tried recreating the entire Excel and Word documents.

Is 255 characters the maximum Mail Merge can handle? Can I change the maximum?

 

[sarsteg]

I hope that you have found a solution already(!), but since I am not seeing one above, I would like to share my solution: save the excel file as a csv file, instead of an excel workbook. I recommend keeping your excel workbook as your final file and saving the csv file as needed for merging. This will import all of the text without a character limit.