document size in Word 2003

[Dan Fox]

apologies if this has been covered before --

in the past, Word had file corruption problems when a document exceeded
50-60 pages. i've just started using Word again (the client requires it!),
and am wondering if I should restrict document length to avoid corruption.
I'm using Word 2003 SP3.

thanks - reply here or via email (remove NOSPAM).

Dan

 

[grammatim]

There are claims out there that a single file can't have more than 32
Mb of text in it (not counting graphics, etc.), which is several
thousand pages at least, but people have posted here that they've had
Word files bigger than that.

Your corruption problems don't relate to the size of your files.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The 32 MB limit applies to text only (exclusive of graphics) and will
accommodate thousands of pages. There are MVPs who claim to have created
documents upwards of 10,000 pages without issue. In fact, 50-60 pages is not
really even considered a "long document." *Many* of the documents I create
are longer than that, containing photos, maps, footnotes, TOCs, many section
breaks, etc., without a problem.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

There are claims out there that a single file can't have more than 32
Mb of text in it (not counting graphics, etc.), which is several
thousand pages at least, but people have posted here that they've had
Word files bigger than that.

Your corruption problems don't relate to the size of your files.