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[John McGhie]

Hi Bob:

I am not sure that there *is* a top-end

I have taken a single Word file to 5,500 pages of plain text.

The "old" limit used to be 32 MB of "Text", not counting graphics or
anything else -- just the text.

However, that was for the old binary format that was held together with
binary pointers that had a fixed maximum size. The new XML format has no
such limit.

So the new limit is likely to be dependant on the file system. That's
around 32 GB in a single file.

What I would say is that any file over 2,000 pages starts to become too slow
to work with in practical terms. Using a very powerful workstation with
lots of memory, I have worked with files up to 5,000 pages. But it does
become an opportunity to acquire patience. And the word-processing needs to
be close to perfect, because any corruption really hurts.

Cheers

Thought I'd better amend my last post a bit before someone else jumps down
my throat I believe there is a top end of some thing like 3,000 or so
pages in a Word doc... I just have a tendency to hyperbolize for effect now
& again ;-)

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

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[CyberTaz]

Yeah - I knew there was a "3" in there someplace 32 MB sounds right for
the old format. However, the latest KB I can find states the same spec with
no exception for 2007 (so I assume 2008 would be the same).

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/211489

In fact, Graham Mayor claims to have a perfectly functional document:

24000 Pages, 96 MB file size

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[WAZ115]

Thanks once again guys. this is a great forum. I read the links posted and I have to start with organization, content, adding graphics and everything else. any other links you can provide or any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

 

[John McGhie]

OK. It's time for YOU to start doing a bit of work

"Tell me all about what you do for a living" will result in an answer the
size of War and Peace

We need to focus things a bit.

Let me ask YOU a question: "What do you understand about the relationship
between the structure of a document and the styles you should use? What
would you aim to do in the styles that would depend on the structure of the
document?"

I think we need to get you going on Styles. Your answer to that question
will give us a good indication of what information you need next.

Oh: I do recall mentioning that you have, so far, not begun to sign your
posts with your name. Please understand that we come here to provide help
because it enables us to converse with fellow users -- real people. That
pleasure is sharply reduced by having to type answers to "WAZ115", which may
be simply a machine.

And sooner rather than later, some of us are likely to decide that if there
is no "person" on the other end of the wire, there are more things more fun
that we could be doing. Just a gentle hint to the wise

Cheers

Thanks once again guys. this is a great forum. I read the links posted and I
have to start with organization, content, adding graphics and everything else.
any other links you can provide or any suggestions will be greatly
appreciated.

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[MJACKSON]

structure of a document shows how a document will look. That includes spacing, indent, tab stops etc. styles is the way the document's words will look. some big some small, some italicized, bold and underlined.

I would make the styles different sizes according to the document. if the document has a lot of paragraphs or subtitles i would use a caps for the outlines and the beginning of the paragraph I would use an extra large first letter for emphasis.