Add additional field delimiter choices when merging a text file.

We are merging a large text file full of legalese . These documents contain
paragraphs that could use any of the default field delimiters. Can one
expand or change this list of default field delimiters? Is so, how? If not,
any suggested work arounds?

We cannot merge from Excel or Access because the data contain more fields
than they can handle, i.e., > 255.

Thanks,

Al
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