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Oct 22, 2004

I have to import a field from Excell that contains more than 50 characters in the field.

I need the line to stop at the last complete word prior to 50 characters and start the next record in that field automaticly and continue to fill and wrap at the last complete word prior to 50 characters.

Would it be better to do this in another Office 2K program?

I have several thousand lines to type if this can't be automated. What a drag.

TIA

M :confused:

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Hi Folks,

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I've tried turning off all of the required aspects and changed the "Yes (no Duplicates)" to "No", and the problem persists!!

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