Size of Table

[John Kirkup]

In successive Windows upgrades, now XP, my Windows 97
table containing not only my current address book but
other incidental information sticks when it reaches
between 850 Kb and 1Mb. It even tells me my brand new
hard disk is full. It is nothing of the kind!!!!! My
latest PC cost Gigabucks and my HDD has Gigabytes to
spare. I have even tried at great expense of time to
patiently copy the address book, line by line into a new
file. I have read that this does indeed happen when a
table in Word reaches 1 Gigabyte but my directory-cum-
archive needs to grow like Alice in Wonderland before it
reaches that size.

 

[Jay Freedman]

In successive Windows upgrades, now XP, my Windows 97
table containing not only my current address book but
other incidental information sticks when it reaches
between 850 Kb and 1Mb. It even tells me my brand new
hard disk is full. It is nothing of the kind!!!!! My
latest PC cost Gigabucks and my HDD has Gigabytes to
spare. I have even tried at great expense of time to
patiently copy the address book, line by line into a new
file. I have read that this does indeed happen when a
table in Word reaches 1 Gigabyte but my directory-cum-
archive needs to grow like Alice in Wonderland before it
reaches that size.

Hi John,

It's likely that your table has become corrupted, possibly by the
successive upgrades or maybe just because of "gremlins".

Try this in a copy of the document (*not* the original!): With the
cursor in the table, select Table > Convert to Text. Then select all
the text and click Table > Convert Text to Table.

BTW, there's no way any table in Word will ever get anywhere near a
gigabyte -- the documented maximum size of a Word document's text (not
including graphics) is 32 megabytes.

For some more suggestions, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm.

 

[Guest]

Thanks JF

1. My table is actually about twelve tables each with a
title
2. A lot of the cells are actually empty

I tried the exercise using the tab option but the empty
cells and headings, which were already text, did not
replicate.

John