Too Few data fields

[Guest]

In MS Word when I mail merge records I'm getting this message "record #
contains too few data fields" I've been using the same st-up for a while and
it was working fine. The funny part is when I view and print the records,
they come out just fine. The message just gets annoying, especially for more
than 1 record. Any ideas? Thanks

 

[Guest]

Which version of Word?

What are you using as a record source?

Regards |:>)

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I ran into this problem when I pasted data from Excel into Word (as a Word
table) and used that as the data source. Whenever a cell in Excel had text
that (a) was not wrapped) and (b) was running over into the next cell, which
was empty, Word created a merged cell in the table, resulting in two few
fields for that record.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Word 2002. The input is actually saved from a FrontPage document in .csv
format. When I open the Word template I merge the records of the .csv
document and once I go to view or print the selected merged documents, I get
the message. I can select ok then press on to do whatever I want. AND the
information merged is correct and complete. It'll do this for each record.
Like I said, used to work fine for a couple weeks, just started recently.

 

[Guest]

Hmmm. Not a problem here as far as I can tell. Although it's not coming
from Excel I checked to see if anything was not wrapped. Not the case.