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Lou
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.