[bidyut]

what is maximum no. of pages a word file can accomodate?

[StevenM[_2_]]

See: http://daiya.mvps.org/wordpages.htm

The long and short of it is this, it depends on how much text you put on a
page. Word can handle 32 MB of text, but this does not translate into pages.

-Steven Craig Miller

"bidyut" wrote:

what is maximum no. of pages a word file can accomodate?

[StevenM[_2_]]

As an afterthought, I came up with the following rough estimate.

Roughly, I would estimate Words capacity to be well over 7,626 pages (a
number derived from the following data: MB = 1,048,576 bytes; and a page with
6-pica (= 1€�) margins and text with 12 point Times New Roman font would
contain almost 4,400 character; thus 1,048,456 x 32 ÷ 4,400 = 7,626 pages).

If I have erred in my calculation, I would welcome correction. As for my
assumptions, it was only to illustrate a rough estimate.

Steven Craig Miller

"bidyut" wrote:

what is maximum no. of pages a word file can accomodate?

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Documents of 10,000 pages have been reported to be handled (more or less)
easily in Word.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"StevenM" stevencraigmiller(at)comcast(dot)net wrote in message
...
As an afterthought, I came up with the following rough estimate.

Roughly, I would estimate Word's capacity to be well over 7,626 pages (a
number derived from the following data: MB = 1,048,576 bytes; and a page
with
6-pica (= 1") margins and text with 12 point Times New Roman font would
contain almost 4,400 character; thus 1,048,456 x 32 ÷ 4,400 = 7,626
pages).

If I have erred in my calculation, I would welcome correction. As for my
assumptions, it was only to illustrate a rough estimate.

Steven Craig Miller

"bidyut" wrote:

what is maximum no. of pages a word file can accomodate?

[StevenM[_2_]]

I should have also added, that my "estimate" was based on single spacing (and
a single paragraph), and obviously anything which might reduce the average
number of characters per page would increase Word's ability to handle more
pages. Thus a little thing like double spacing would double my "estimate."
And any "white space" would increase it, such as wider margins, headings,
half blank, or full blank pages, etc.

Steven Craig Miller

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Documents of 10,000 pages have been reported to be handled (more or less)
easily in Word.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"StevenM" stevencraigmiller(at)comcast(dot)net wrote in message
...
As an afterthought, I came up with the following rough estimate.

Roughly, I would estimate Word's capacity to be well over 7,626 pages (a
number derived from the following data: MB = 1,048,576 bytes; and a page
with
6-pica (= 1") margins and text with 12 point Times New Roman font would
contain almost 4,400 character; thus 1,048,456 x 32 ÷ 4,400 = 7,626
pages).

If I have erred in my calculation, I would welcome correction. As for my
assumptions, it was only to illustrate a rough estimate.

Steven Craig Miller

"bidyut" wrote:

what is maximum no. of pages a word file can accomodate?

[Opinicus]

"bidyut" wrote

what is maximum no. of pages a word file can accomodate?

Define "page" first...

--
Bob
http://www.kanyak.com

[StevenM[_2_]]

Here is another estimate to balance my earlier conservative estimate.

Robert Bringhurst, in his classic work €œThe Elements of Typographic Style,€�
states that most books now printed with the €œLatin 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 Words 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?

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"StevenM" stevencraigmiller(at)comcast(dot)net wrote in message
...
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?

[StevenM[_2_]]

To: Suzanne S. Barnhill,

The bottom line is that there is no practical limitation on the text.

I've read a number of books which were over 1,000 pages, but I don't think
I've ever seen a single volume with anywhere close to 10,000 pages. It is
hard to imagine anyone trying to printout a 10,000 page document -- with
double sided printing that would take ten reams of paper. And then, where
would you put it? That would be one large 3-ring binder!

Steven Craig Miller

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The MVP who claimed to have worked on documents this size was helping to
prepare telecomms standards (i.e., legal stuff), and yes, I'm sure they do
fill many volumes/binders.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"StevenM" stevencraigmiller(at)comcast(dot)net wrote in message
...
To: Suzanne S. Barnhill,

The bottom line is that there is no practical limitation on the text.


I've read a number of books which were over 1,000 pages, but I don't think
I've ever seen a single volume with anywhere close to 10,000 pages. It is
hard to imagine anyone trying to printout a 10,000 page document -- with
double sided printing that would take ten reams of paper. And then, where
would you put it? That would be one large 3-ring binder!

Steven Craig Miller

[StevenM[_2_]]

To: Suzanne S. Barnhill,

The MVP who claimed to have worked on documents this size was helping to
prepare telecomms standards (i.e., legal stuff), and yes, I'm sure they do
fill many volumes/binders.

Yes, but did anyone read the whole document? I've read "War and Peace," and
enjoyed doing so, I've read many a book over 1,000 pages, but never something
like a 10,000 page work on telecomms standards. Does Readers Digest publish
an abridged version? Cliffnotes? grin

Steven Craig Miller

[grammatim[_2_]]

On Jun 19, 12:23*pm, StevenM stevencraigmiller(at)comcast(dot)net
wrote:
To: Suzanne S. Barnhill,

The bottom line is that there is no practical limitation on the text.

I've read a number of books which were over 1,000 pages, but I don't think
I've ever seen a single volume with anywhere close to 10,000 pages. It is
hard to imagine anyone trying to printout a 10,000 page document -- with
double sided printing that would take ten reams of paper. And then, where
would you put it? That would be one large 3-ring binder!

Yale UP's new biography of Mozart is around 1600 rather large pages
with rather narrow margins. It's probably close to the limit of what
can be put into a single binding.

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages is 1170
pages of the same or a slightly larger size, and you probably won't
find a copy in any library whose cover isn't partly or mostly detached
from the book already. They're now reissuing it in something like four
paperback volumes (sold separately).