Interesting, thanks.
DM


On 5/25/05 12:42 PM, "*((({" wrote:

Using Word 2000. It was all text. But it was a close call -- had to
close the document after 3-5 find/replace operations. And some
find/replace took 5+ minutes. Time for me to get a cup of tea. I
have 512 Megs of Ram, and a Pentium IV.

*(((({




In the last exciting episode on Tue, 24 May 2005 09:34:41 -0700, Daiya
Mitchell wrote:

|Apparently Word 2003 Help no longer has the info that the max size is
|32MB--whether this is because there is no longer a max, or just part of the
|general downgrade of Help in Office 2003, I don't know.
|
|Was your 47MB document all text? That didn't include any graphics? And
|which version were you using?
|
|Good to know if the limits are higher--for the few people who will take
|advantage of that.
|
|
|On 5/24/05 8:59 AM, "*((({" wrote:
|
| I just finished working on a 47 meg document. It exceeded 10,000
| pages. I worked with it carefully and patiently, saving and backing
| up, to find/replace and do formatting. Once I got that done, I saved
| it into sepearate documents, one for each volume. None is more than 8
| megs, and now the true editing is going along swimmingly.
|
|
|
| |Word has been known to handle documents up to 10,000 pages in a single
file,
| |assuming sufficient power/RAM in the computer.
| |
| |You should be fine. The max is (or was) 32MB, but that referred to text
| |only, and did not include graphics. 32MB of text is a whole lot.
| |