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Using Word 2000. It was all text. But it was a close call -- had to
close the document after 3-5 find/replace operations. And some
find/replace took 5+ minutes. Time for me to get a cup of tea. I
have 512 Megs of Ram, and a Pentium IV.

And you are positive that there were no other objects of any sort in
there? Holy Guacamole, 47 MByte of Text is a lot of Harry Potter books!!

It would be worth finding out which of the limitations of the article
below are history nowadays, and which are still in force. As Daiya
mentioned, the fact that it's not anymore in Help or at the MSFT
homepage doesn't really tell us a lot ... :-(

WD2000: Operating Parameter Limitations and Specifications
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q211489

Greetinx
Robert
PS: 512 MByte RAM is surely on the lower end for such a document ...
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