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Question

Does MS Word have size restrictions?

Aug 3, 2011 7:24AM PDT

I have created an MS Word 2007 document (in Windows 7 Enterprise) that is 141 pages, 5271 words, and 120 Mb. There are scanned document screen shots scattered throughout the document. I did read that it can be no larger than 512 Mb to open but I'm well within that limit. It seems to open a bit slowly and I'm just a little concerned about its stability. Anyone have any thoughts? Thank you.

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There are limits
Aug 4, 2011 5:32AM PDT

and Microsoft notes them in their article here;
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/211489

File size 512MB. I will leave you to try and understand all the other numbers! Devil

There's a workaround of course. Split the document into parts, like Chapters in a book.

Mark

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As they get large.
Aug 4, 2011 9:23AM PDT

Some machines tend to crash. I don't think that's a bug in Word today since I found the machine to have issues.

For BOOKS and LARGE DOCUMENTS many folk use apps like FrameMaker.
Bob