"Fields are nested too deeply."

It appears your document has acquired some of corruption. Corrupt documents can often be 'repaired' by inserting a new, empty, paragraph at the very end, copying everything except that new paragraph to a new document based on the same template (headers & footers may need to be copied separately), closing the old document and saving the new one over it.

If you cannot sort it out by following Macropod's suggestion, send me a copy of the document, referencing this thread in the covering email message, and I will investigate the issue.

Hi Mark,

It is likely that Paul and Doug are right that it is document corruption.

If you are using macros it is possible that your code is actually creating to many levels of fields. To diagnose that, we would need to actually see the code, or at least I would.

If the document corruption cure works, please mark their responses as answers so that they will come to the attention of others who have the same problem.

If you want, save a sample document with the problem on OneDrive or Dropbox and paste a view link here. Remove any confidential or sensitive information first. I or someone else can take a look at it.

For OneDrive: See https://support.office.com/article/share-onedri...

For DropBox: See https://help.dropbox.com/files-folders/share/vi...

This forum is a user-to-user support forum. I am a fellow user.

I hope this information helps.

Please let me know if you have any more questions or require further help.

You can ask for more help by replying to this post (Reply button below).

Regards

Having the same name for different (or duplicate) macros will cause problems as well but should not cause the "Fields are nested to deeply" message.

Thanks for your quick response, Charles.  I appreciate the clarity of answers.  

Two files are in question:  

1.  One is a dictionary with Greek and Hebrew fonts that is over 4,000 pages long.  This seems to be the main document with deep file nesting /  macro problems.
2.  Before we get to that, I'd like to link you to the shorter document first:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/962su9ocnd4hkwg/Revelation%2019\_11-16%20-%20test%20macros.doc?dl=0

Please check the macros connected to this 40-page document.  I suspect that the three groups of duplicate macros are causing the problem in the longer document too.  

When I upgraded from MS Word 2011 last week to Office 365, my attempts to create keyboard shortcuts to macros in the Normal.dotm template generated a new set of duplicate macros called "Project...."  

Please advise on this macro issue for the short document, then I'll see if I can fix the 4K dictionary.  It has multiple sections which may / may not affect that suggestion from Paul to repair by his process.