Microsoft KB Archive/69636

Word: Missing Data Record Field Doesn’t Return Error Message

PSS ID Number: Q69636 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

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The Print Merge feature in Microsoft Word for DOS does not return an error message if the number of fields in a data record document is exactly one less than the number of fields in the header record document.

Example
Name, Address, Zip John, 234 Main <- This line does not return an error message Phillip, 345 Vine, 34521

Word assumes the last field in the record is intentionally left blank; therefore, no error message is returned.

If any other discrepancy in the number of fields exists, Word returns one of the following error messages:

Record X: Too many fields in data record.

-or-

Record X: Too few fields or missing comma in data record.

X refers to the data record number.

KBCategory: kbother kberrmsg KBSubcategory: kbmerge Additional reference words: few

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