I've recently upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate, and to a full copy of MS Office Home & Student 2007. I'm constantly getting this message, even on documents that have started life as .docx documents. It doesn't seem to occur when a new page begins, or at a particular page (the latest was 14 pages, other docs are between 20 and 30 pages). The only common thing I've noticed is that it does it when it's doing a big refresh of the screen - e.g if I scroll quickly or add text that then takes me over into the next page.
It's driving me nuts because the program just hangs, and when I force a shutdown via task manager it loses whatever I did since the last save. Even though I have auto save on that's still a big irritation for me and is pretty terrifying - what I'm working on is my PhD thesis and it's time consuming and stressful enough without software problems causing bizarre issues.
I'm decidedly alarmed by the suggestion that this is a 'bogus error' arbitrarily stuck in by lazy developers who just didn't have an appropriate error message handy. At the price we pay to licence this software, I'd expect better quality than that.
David McGeown wrote:
exceeded the maximum number of pages error - Suzanne S. Barnhill
21-Sep-09
Hey folks
We in NJ are going thru the same issues.
I agree it is evident in DOCs moved from my wife's old XP machine to her new Dell Vista.
Hours of guessing have come up with nothing repeatable. She just gets the error meaasge without warninn. Word shuts down. On restart all is peachy for the rest of the day from the autorecovery. If she remembers to manually save the problem is held off for longer.
You are not alone.
Maybe we should all try open office more!!
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Re: exceeded the maximum number of pages error
You're not the first to report this error message, but we still have
difficulty understanding it because (a) Word really has no firm concept of
pages (see
http://daiya.mvps.org/wordpages.htm), and (b) as far as anyone
knows, there is no "maximum number of pages supported by Microsoft Office
Word." Judging from Google search results, this may be a new error message
in Word 2007, and it does seem likely to have something to do with
conversion (though one hit I found had to do with trying to open a PDF in
Word). And apparently the maximum number of pages is 32767. In any case,
it is likely that the message is bogus and, as Bob Buckland pointed out at
http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive...word.application.errors/2008-07/msg00332.html,
may have been used because Word did not have a suitable error message for
whatever the problem is.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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exceeded the maximum number of pages error
I keep getting this error messge: "You have exceeded the maximum number of
pages supported by Microsoft Office Word" and then the application quits
running.
I then get to picked whether or not I want the application to re-start. My
document always seems fine when it reopens but having the application lock up
is very annoying.
I THINK that it happens with documents that I created in Word 2003 on my old
non-vista computer but I'm not sure.
Has anyone else experienced this?
You're not the first to report this error message, but we still have
You're not the first to report this error message, but we still have
difficulty understanding it because (a) Word really has no firm concept of
pages (see
http://daiya.mvps.org/wordpages.htm), and (b) as far as anyone
knows, there is no "maximum number of pages supported by Microsoft Office
Word." Judging from Google search results, this may be a new error message
in Word 2007, and it does seem likely to have something to do with
conversion (though one hit I found had to do with trying to open a PDF in
Word). And apparently the maximum number of pages is 32767. In any case,
it's likely that the message is bogus and, as Bob Buckland pointed out at
http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive...word.application.errors/2008-07/msg00332.html,
may have been used because Word didn't have a suitable error message for
whatever the problem is.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Thanks for your message.
Thanks for your message.
I guess the bottom line is that I just have to live with it. Like others who
have noted this the file isn't large and contains no macros that I'm aware of
(key phrase there).
Do you know if anything is being done to resolve this issue?
:
I think the issue may not have surfaced yet as a reproducible bug.
I think the issue may not have surfaced yet as a reproducible bug. If this
is occurring with a specific document or type of document and you have a
small sample you can send me that exhibits the problem, I can test it
further and escalate the issue or pass along the document to someone who
might be able to figure out what the problem is. If it's happening with all
documents, that would be more difficult to troubleshoot.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
It happened already this morning but I've now saved the documents as a
It happened already this morning but I've now saved the documents as a
repaired file. The next time it happens I'll send you the file. Like others
have indicated, the files are usually small - 64 KB or less.
Thanks!
:
exceeded the maximum number of pages error - Suzanne S. Barnhill
Hey folks
We in NJ are going thru the same issues.
I agree it is evident in DOCs moved from my wife's old XP machine to her new Dell Vista.
Hours of guessing have come up with nothing repeatable. She just gets the error meaasge without warninn. Word shuts down. On restart all is peachy for the rest of the day from the autorecovery. If she remembers to manually save the problem is held off for longer.
You are not alone.
Maybe we should all try open office more!!
Posted as a reply to:
Re: exceeded the maximum number of pages error
You're not the first to report this error message, but we still have
difficulty understanding it because (a) Word really has no firm concept of
pages (see
http://daiya.mvps.org/wordpages.htm), and (b) as far as anyone
knows, there is no "maximum number of pages supported by Microsoft Office
Word." Judging from Google search results, this may be a new error message
in Word 2007, and it does seem likely to have something to do with
conversion (though one hit I found had to do with trying to open a PDF in
Word). And apparently the maximum number of pages is 32767. In any case,
it is likely that the message is bogus and, as Bob Buckland pointed out at
http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive...word.application.errors/2008-07/msg00332.html,
may have been used because Word did not have a suitable error message for
whatever the problem is.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice
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http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorial...a-6dafb17b6d74/wcf-workflow-services-usi.aspx
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