I would suspect some corruption in doc 4. Try saving it as an RTF file,
closing it, reopening it and re-saving as a doc (under a new name). Then try
inserting it.

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I'm working on some documents. I want to combine them. Each document
is 3-4 megs in size. Total size when comined will be about 9 meg.
Word 2000 won't let me. After I insert 2-3 documents, save, close,
and reopen, and try to insert document 4, i get a message saying "too
many edits in the document."

I've done this before, so I can't figure out why I'm having trouble
now. Any help welcome

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