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Ted M H
I'm a fairly advanced Word 2007 user and I'm increasingly frustrated by Word
crashes when I work with large documents. I typically have 100 - 300 pages
in a document with hundreds of graphics (snagit screen shots mainly),
hundreds of text boxes, perhaps 100 captions with several dozen cross
references, many dozens of numbered lists using a custom multi level list
style. I use virtually no direct formatting but rather use styles the way
they're intended to be used.
I need a TOC and an Index in each document as well as a table of figures for
my captions. I'm competent in using all these tools and techniques in Word.
There's a consistent pattern emerging in my work—Word doesn't seem capable
of handling my large, complex documents. It seems that some sort of
corruption creeps in and I can't isolate and fix it—whatever it is. I've
tried master and sub documents and working with everything in the same
document, but I get essentially the same result—unstable files that crash so
often that I can't work effectively.
It doesn't matter whether I work on a Vista system or an XP Pro system—the
files still aren't stable once I get up to 70 – 80 pages.
Since I need the TOC and Index and cross refs, etc. as well as continuous
page numbering in my footers, I need to keep the documents together—not
practical to have, say, 10 separate documents, each one holding a chapter.
So is Publisher 2007 the tool I should be using? Or is it likely to have
its own problems dealing with large, complex documents?
crashes when I work with large documents. I typically have 100 - 300 pages
in a document with hundreds of graphics (snagit screen shots mainly),
hundreds of text boxes, perhaps 100 captions with several dozen cross
references, many dozens of numbered lists using a custom multi level list
style. I use virtually no direct formatting but rather use styles the way
they're intended to be used.
I need a TOC and an Index in each document as well as a table of figures for
my captions. I'm competent in using all these tools and techniques in Word.
There's a consistent pattern emerging in my work—Word doesn't seem capable
of handling my large, complex documents. It seems that some sort of
corruption creeps in and I can't isolate and fix it—whatever it is. I've
tried master and sub documents and working with everything in the same
document, but I get essentially the same result—unstable files that crash so
often that I can't work effectively.
It doesn't matter whether I work on a Vista system or an XP Pro system—the
files still aren't stable once I get up to 70 – 80 pages.
Since I need the TOC and Index and cross refs, etc. as well as continuous
page numbering in my footers, I need to keep the documents together—not
practical to have, say, 10 separate documents, each one holding a chapter.
So is Publisher 2007 the tool I should be using? Or is it likely to have
its own problems dealing with large, complex documents?