CAPACITY OF WORD FILE
The bottom line is that there is no practical limitation on the text. Most
of the people who are asking this question will never create a document of
more than a few hundred pages (if that).
It always amuses me to see questions in
microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs about 30-page term papers (which
obviously are "long" to people who have never written anything longer than a
letter).
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
"StevenM" stevencraigmiller(at)comcast(dot)net wrote in message
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Here is another estimate to balance my earlier conservative estimate.
Robert Bringhurst, in his classic work "The Elements of Typographic
Style,"
states that most books now printed with the "Latin Alphabet" usually hold
on
average between 300 to 500 words per page (and an average word size is 5
characters plus a space). Using these numbers, a page would contain
between
1,800 and 3,000 characters per page, and thus Word's maximum capacity
would
be between 11,183 and 18,639 pages (depending, of course, on the average
density of the characters per page).
Steven Craig Miller
"bidyut" wrote:
what is maximum no. of pages a word file can accomodate?
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