December 12th, 2008, 04:16 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jay m
I am using word 2007 on a laptop with 4gb of RAM, the error message i
get is:
Word cannot open this file because it is larger than 512megabytes.
(C:\Users\...\photographicportfolio.docx)
I have been able to recover the text so far but, have been still be
unable to open the file to see the pictures and tables.
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Did you succeed?
Does OpenOffice have the same file siize limit?
oops- does OOo handle docx yet?
Using the 'open as zip' trick, you could probably just rip a few megs
of pic files out of the doc, to bring it under 512 MB.
Then open it with Word, and split it into sections.
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I was able to recover the text but i lost all the formatted pictures
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