[Jay Freedman]

Jean-Guy Marcil wrote:
"geotso" wrote:

then, "Jean-Guy Marcil" climbed to the rostrum and said:
"Jay Freedman" wrote:

The (undocumented) limit is 514 characters. We hashed this out in
the thread

Typical... I guess they figured that 514 was sufficiently long so
that
nobody would ever go over that limit, so they did not bother to
document it...

Thanks Jay.

However, the number itself is a bit strange for me!
What was the reason to choose the 514? A "binary" choice sounds
much better for me, like 2x2^8=512

Absolutely! I did have the same thought!

All I know is what I see. shrug It did accept 514 characters. Maybe two of
them are stored in hyperspace.

Someday we need to have a session with the Word product group to crawl
through the code looking for the reasons for things like this. Sure, and
they have nothing better to do... ;-)

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