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MS Word Limits
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Users have been known to create Word documents upwards of 10,000 pages. The
size document your system can handle depends primarily on the amount of available memory and secondarily on the amount of available HD space (speed of the processor is a factor but a less important one). The absolute maximum size for a Word document is 32 MB, but that's for text only; it doesn't count graphics. Every layer of complexity (graphics, tables, section breaks) causes Word to bog down more, but you can improve performance in a variety of ways: 1. Work in Normal view as much as possible. 2. On the View tab, clear the check box for "Drawings" (wrapped objects, which won't display in Normal view, anyway, but this will keep them from being displayed in Print Layout view) and check the box for "Picture placeholders (which applies to inline graphics, which can be displayed in Normal view). Linking graphics if possible will also keep the size down. 3. Use styles rather than direct formatting as much as possible. 4. Avoid long tables, especially long single-row tables. Whenever there is an opportunity to break a table, do so. When you're working in a long table, split it temporarily just above the point where you're working, then rejoin it when you move on. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Raymond Scroggy" wrote in message ... Does anyone know of any limits to the size or number of pages you can have on a word doc? I have a user with a 550+ plus page doc and he is getting worried about corruptness. Any help would be appreciated. Raymond Scroggy |
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