>Hello All:
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>We have a Word OLE automation letter merge within VFP 6.0 that works well (most of the time). I am getting the following error currently:
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>Error number: 1429
>Error message: OLE Dispatch exception code 0 from MS Word; String is longer than 255 characters.
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>This occurs during the create header source routine prior to the actual data merge, after Word object has been launched.
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>Anybody seen this one and have any ideas? TIA,

It's documented. For source SQL string can't be longer than 255 chars (word VBA problem not fox). However there is 2 SQL string parameters. Divide the string into 2 (first 255 in first) and put into 2 parameters.
Cetin