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I recently volunteered to help on a community project to publish a history of our community, we chose MS Word 2002 to write it in. The book contains about 400 pages. It consists of a Master document and 30 sub-documents of which one is a table of contents and one is an index. We are compiling this "document" on my computer which is a Pentium 4 (3.06 gig) system with 2 gig of memory, 78 gig of free disk space on the F: disk where the document file is located, and 5.78 gig of free disk space on the C: drive where the temp file is located. My OS is Windows XP pro and I use MS Office XP pro. All the techie stuff out of the way to the problem. Everything was going well until we started adding pictures to the "document" (some .png, .wmf and .jpg). The document has grown to about 1.47 gig and now when we try to compile the TOC from the master doc and we respond "yes" to the query "Do you want open the subdcuments before continuing with this command?" it occassional gives us an error that a subdocument is missing and indicates that all subsequent subdocument in the master doc are likewise missing, it also sometimes gives an error that a "Word failed reading from this file (filename). Please restore the network connection or replace the floppy disk and retry" . . . the file named is neither on the network nor on floppy disk. Could it be that the 1.47 gig "document" is too big for MS Word to handle. Any body have any advise ???? When the problems occured I sent an error report to Microsoft but we know that usually goes into a black hole or at least I'll never receive a response. I 've downloaded all the patches and I'm at a loss.
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Answered at length in response to duplicate post in docmanagement. This post
also given in response to your other duplicate post in application.errors. Short story - you've found out why people advise others to not use Master Documents. In the Microsoft Word newsgroups it is considered bad form to post separate messages to multiple newsgroups. If you need to post in more than one forum (unusual) please post a single message with both forums in the header of that single message. That way (1) your question and the various answers stay together, (2) less space is used on the news servers, (3) less bandwidth is used on the Internet, (4) you only have to check one forum for answers that appear in both forums, and (5) you won't unnecessarily annoy the people you are asking for help. This isn't meant to criticize you. We were all beginners once and the only way to learn is to try. (BTW, a number of the Microsoft newsgroups don't want posting in more than one newsgroup, period. Check the FAQ.) Take a look on the MVP FAQ website under "getting help" for more reasons ase well as other suggestions for getting answers more easily and quickly. URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/FindHelp/Posting.htm -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "lou" wrote in message ... I recently volunteered to help on a community project to publish a history of our community, we chose MS Word 2002 to write it in. The book contains about 400 pages. It consists of a Master document and 30 sub-documents of which one is a table of contents and one is an index. We are compiling this "document" on my computer which is a Pentium 4 (3.06 gig) system with 2 gig of memory, 78 gig of free disk space on the F: disk where the document file is located, and 5.78 gig of free disk space on the C: drive where the temp file is located. My OS is Windows XP pro and I use MS Office XP pro. All the techie stuff out of the way to the problem. Everything was going well until we started adding pictures to the "document" (some .png, .wmf and ..jpg). The document has grown to about 1.47 gig and now when we try to compile the TOC from the master doc and we respond "yes" to the query "Do you want open the subdcuments before continuing with this command?" it occassional gives us an error that a subdocument is missing and indicates that all subsequent subdocument in the master doc are likewise missing, it also sometimes gives an error that a "Word failed reading from this file (filename). Please restore the network connection or replace the floppy disk and retry" . . . the file named is neither on the network nor on floppy disk. Could it be that the 1.47 gig "document" is too big for MS Word to handle. Any body have any advise ???? When the problems occured I sent an error report to Microsoft but we know that usually goes into a black hole or at least I'll never receive a response. I 've downloaded all the patches and I'm at a loss. |
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