Optimum number of pages

[ann]

I am doing a book that should be about 200 pages (each page is half an 8x11).
I now have 116 and when I try to add pages (on the INSERT menu) It says ok
and then cuts me down to 16!

I can't find anything that tells me how many pages one file can handle in
Publisher 2003.

The last book I did was on the original version of publisher! I can split
the publication into two or more files, and probably will have to because
pictures aren't inserted yet, but need to know about file size so don't have
to do everything twice. Thanks

 

[Mary Sauer]

How much memory do you have? What about your swap (virtual memory) file? I
remember 2000 publications had a limit of a little over 2GB, I haven't been able
to find the newer versions limit. I just now created a booklet with 200 pages in
2003 without issue. The pages are empty so it is only 131KB in size. Can you
insert 200 pages all at once before creating content?

Are you getting errors?

 

[ann]

No problem with the memory - have lots. I inserted 150 pages to begin but
somehow that knocked itself down to 107 after I began inporting the text from
Word. Also when added pages got duplicate text pages in a foreign language
which I had to delete one by one. This is crazy. I have absolutely no idea
how that occurred. I will begin again at the beginning with 250 pages and see
what happens? Maybe it will work wonderfully as these things are wont to do?
Am still open to any and all solutions or idiosyncracies of the program!
Thanks much.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Have you tried creating a text box, right-click, click change text, click text
file and browsing to your Word file? It would be better than trying to import a
Word document. You wouldn't need to adjust the margins and Publisher will
automatically create pages and text boxes.