How do I get a longer bookmark name when adding a form field?

[Judi]

Word document.
Insert a form field.
Double-click of form field for definitions.
Under "Bookmark", attempt to enter 20+ characters. THIS IS THE PROBLEM!
Need more than 20 characters.

I update these form fields from a database agent using:
forall bookmarks in the book.
All has worked fine for several years, but I need longer bookmark names.

 

[headly]

Hi Judi,

While in theory Word supports bookmarks up to 256 alphanumeric characters,
i've found that my form field bookmarks need to stay under 16 characters. If
you're populating from a database consider using a separate conversion table
to convert/reduce the length of the names.

GL!