Document Length...

[Joachim]

Hello,

Would anyone happen to know how long word documents can be
before they become unstable? Is it 100pages, 500 pages?
I'm working with Word XP and will be hoping to create
documents of 2000 pages. I know I can make a master
document, but I'm wondering what will happen to the
stability of the document.

Thanks,

Joachim.

 

[Susan W. Gallagher]

It depends, Joachim. It isn't necessarily the length of the document, but the complexity that matters most. You can create a very long doc that's text only and have no problems, or a 50-pager with lots of cross-references and embedded graphics and have no end of troubles.

For very long documents, as you've described, conventional wisdom is to break the book into individual chapter files, then tie them all together with a document that contains RD fields referencing each chapter. You use the document with RD fields to generate the TOC and index. Word's online help has the information you'll need to create RD (reference document) fields.

----- Joachim wrote: -----

Hello,

Would anyone happen to know how long word documents can be
before they become unstable? Is it 100pages, 500 pages?
I'm working with Word XP and will be hoping to create
documents of 2000 pages. I know I can make a master
document, but I'm wondering what will happen to the
stability of the document.

Thanks,

Joachim.