Microsoft KB Archive/155101

= PUB97: Field Names Limited to 63 Characters =

Article ID: 155101

Article Last Modified on 11/7/2002

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Publisher 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q155101



SUMMARY
When you perform a mail merge in Publisher 97 the field names may be truncated when viewing field codes. When you're in Show Field Codes mode you may find that field names containing more than 63 characters are truncated in your publication. This is by design.



MORE INFORMATION
Publisher 97 limits the length of a specific field name to 63 characters. Databases created outside of Publisher can exceed this limit; however, when merged into Publisher they are truncated to 254 characters.

Additional query words: 4.0 pub97 w_mspub mspub field codes limit

Keywords: kbinfo kbfaq kbusage KB155101

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