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I am using MS Word 2003 as a source file editor for a Help Authoring Tool for
a large software documentation project, and one of my main files, which contains a huge amount of jpegs, is approaching 18 MB. What's the largest file size I can safely maintain without horrible things happening to my project? Thanks! |
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Horrible things can happen with a 18KB file.
I was working with a file that kept blowing up to 60+MB. My system was *not* happy but it was a hardware issue in that case. I also found a way to reduce the file size to a manageable 6 MB. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "RGBrasel" wrote in message ... I am using MS Word 2003 as a source file editor for a Help Authoring Tool for a large software documentation project, and one of my main files, which contains a huge amount of jpegs, is approaching 18 MB. What's the largest file size I can safely maintain without horrible things happening to my project? Thanks! |
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On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 09:56:01 -0700, RGBrasel
wrote: I am using MS Word 2003 as a source file editor for a Help Authoring Tool for a large software documentation project, and one of my main files, which contains a huge amount of jpegs, is approaching 18 MB. What's the largest file size I can safely maintain without horrible things happening to my project? Thanks! The documented limit for a document is 32 MB of text, which does not include the size of any embedded objects. As a practical limit, though, Word tends to get slower as documents get larger. You may want to look into linking the pictures with INCLUDEPICTURE fields instead of embedding them in the document. Document corruption can happen at almost any document size, as JoAnn implied. The article http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm discusses some causes and remedies. Despite the dire warnings there, though, for most people corruption is rare to nonexistent. Just be careful to keep good and frequent backups. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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