[Dustdisk]

Hi!

Each of you, please tell me, what was the biggest and most complex document
you ever created/edited with Word? Please, specify number of pages, amount
and complexity of tables, amount of styles etc. Did you experience any
problems with huge documents? What did it look like?

I'm going to create and maintain very big document in Word 2003 and I just
would like to know what problems or issue I may be faced with.

Thanks!

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

SAVE OFTEN! I see a lot of posts from people who don't save files or decide
to try something different and save over the "good" draft. If you're going
to try something experimental, save it and then save it with a new name.
Then try your experiment.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]




"Dustdisk" wrote in message
...
Hi!

Each of you, please tell me, what was the biggest and most complex
document
you ever created/edited with Word? Please, specify number of pages, amount
and complexity of tables, amount of styles etc. Did you experience any
problems with huge documents? What did it look like?

I'm going to create and maintain very big document in Word 2003 and I just
would like to know what problems or issue I may be faced with.

Thanks!

[Daiya Mitchell]

And do not trust Word's Versions feature. Use Save As FileName#5, Save As
FileName #6, etc.


On 8/18/06 7:00 AM, "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote:

SAVE OFTEN! I see a lot of posts from people who don't save files or decide
to try something different and save over the "good" draft. If you're going
to try something experimental, save it and then save it with a new name.
Then try your experiment.

--
Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word
Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/
MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html
What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/

[Daiya Mitchell]

John McGhie has reported up to 10,000 pages in one file, and has some advice
at these links:

One Professional¹s Steps for Writing a Book
http://daiya.mvps.org/booksteps.htm

Planning a Book Project
http://daiya.mvps.org/bookproject.htm

You'll need quite a bit of RAM to handle that many pages in one doc, though,
and that's not necessarily the best approach.

There is a page full of useful links for dealing with extremely long
documents here (sorry, format is a little off just now):
So You Want to Write a Book with MS Word
http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm

Reading through the Overview, General Principles, and Basic Techniques
sections will give you a sense of the best practice options, and problems
people have run into.

Also, see especially this page:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart2.htm
Which is about creating a technical manual rather than a book, so has a
slightly different slant, plus is shorter.

And also:

Layout Planning: Advice from a Professional Typesetter
http://daiya.mvps.org/layoutplan.htm

And finally--there is a newsgroup dedicated to long documents, and your
further questions will be seen more easily there, rather than in this group
which is rather crowded.
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...g.longdocs?hl=
en
Searching the archives there may also help answer your original question.

Hope that helps!

On 8/18/06 6:24 AM, "Dustdisk" wrote:

Hi!

Each of you, please tell me, what was the biggest and most complex document
you ever created/edited with Word? Please, specify number of pages, amount
and complexity of tables, amount of styles etc. Did you experience any
problems with huge documents? What did it look like?

I'm going to create and maintain very big document in Word 2003 and I just
would like to know what problems or issue I may be faced with.

Thanks!

--
Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word
Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/
MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html
What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Shows you how "old school" I am - I've never used Versions. I've always used
testfile1, testfile2, etc. Sounds like I should be glad about that.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]




"Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message
.. .
And do not trust Word's Versions feature. Use Save As FileName#5, Save As
FileName #6, etc.


On 8/18/06 7:00 AM, "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote:

SAVE OFTEN! I see a lot of posts from people who don't save files or
decide
to try something different and save over the "good" draft. If you're
going
to try something experimental, save it and then save it with a new name.
Then try your experiment.

--
Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word
Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/
MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html
What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ:
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/

[Graham Mayor]

You may find http://www.gmayor.com/save_numbered_versions.htm useful?

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Daiya Mitchell wrote:
And do not trust Word's Versions feature. Use Save As FileName#5,
Save As FileName #6, etc.


On 8/18/06 7:00 AM, "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote:

SAVE OFTEN! I see a lot of posts from people who don't save files or
decide to try something different and save over the "good" draft. If
you're going to try something experimental, save it and then save it
with a new name. Then try your experiment.

[Dustdisk]

Thank you all (especially Daiya Mitchell) for these really helpful information!
The document I'm creating in Word will have about 350 pages, lots of small
screenshots and tables, about 40-50 different paragraph styles and about 40
sections (each section will represent a separate chapter with its own
"section-wide" table of contents).
Actually, I'm converting two FrameMaker documents into a single Word document.

"Daiya Mitchell" wrote:

John McGhie has reported up to 10,000 pages in one file, and has some advice
at these links:

One Professional¹s Steps for Writing a Book
http://daiya.mvps.org/booksteps.htm

Planning a Book Project
http://daiya.mvps.org/bookproject.htm

You'll need quite a bit of RAM to handle that many pages in one doc, though,
and that's not necessarily the best approach.

There is a page full of useful links for dealing with extremely long
documents here (sorry, format is a little off just now):
So You Want to Write a Book with MS Word
http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm

Reading through the Overview, General Principles, and Basic Techniques
sections will give you a sense of the best practice options, and problems
people have run into.

Also, see especially this page:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart2.htm
Which is about creating a technical manual rather than a book, so has a
slightly different slant, plus is shorter.

And also:

Layout Planning: Advice from a Professional Typesetter
http://daiya.mvps.org/layoutplan.htm

And finally--there is a newsgroup dedicated to long documents, and your
further questions will be seen more easily there, rather than in this group
which is rather crowded.
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...g.longdocs?hl=
en
Searching the archives there may also help answer your original question.

Hope that helps!

On 8/18/06 6:24 AM, "Dustdisk" wrote:

Hi!

Each of you, please tell me, what was the biggest and most complex document
you ever created/edited with Word? Please, specify number of pages, amount
and complexity of tables, amount of styles etc. Did you experience any
problems with huge documents? What did it look like?

I'm going to create and maintain very big document in Word 2003 and I just
would like to know what problems or issue I may be faced with.

Thanks!

--
Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word
Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/
MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html
What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/

[Daiya Mitchell]

Glad to help--

One more link that I haven't updated my page to have:

http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/TOCTips.htm

Addresses creating a TOC for part of the document.

Word should be able to handle your doc without a problem, assuming you've
got a decent computer.

Daiya


On 8/21/06 9:35 AM, "Dustdisk" wrote:

Thank you all (especially Daiya Mitchell) for these really helpful
information!
The document I'm creating in Word will have about 350 pages, lots of small
screenshots and tables, about 40-50 different paragraph styles and about 40
sections (each section will represent a separate chapter with its own
"section-wide" table of contents).
Actually, I'm converting two FrameMaker documents into a single Word document.

"Daiya Mitchell" wrote:

John McGhie has reported up to 10,000 pages in one file, and has some advice
at these links:

One Professional©ös Steps for Writing a Book
http://daiya.mvps.org/booksteps.htm

Planning a Book Project
http://daiya.mvps.org/bookproject.htm

You'll need quite a bit of RAM to handle that many pages in one doc, though,
and that's not necessarily the best approach.

There is a page full of useful links for dealing with extremely long
documents here (sorry, format is a little off just now):
So You Want to Write a Book with MS Word
http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm

Reading through the Overview, General Principles, and Basic Techniques
sections will give you a sense of the best practice options, and problems
people have run into.

Also, see especially this page:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart2.htm
Which is about creating a technical manual rather than a book, so has a
slightly different slant, plus is shorter.

And also:

Layout Planning: Advice from a Professional Typesetter
http://daiya.mvps.org/layoutplan.htm

And finally--there is a newsgroup dedicated to long documents, and your
further questions will be seen more easily there, rather than in this group
which is rather crowded.
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...g.longdocs?hl=
en
Searching the archives there may also help answer your original question.

Hope that helps!

On 8/18/06 6:24 AM, "Dustdisk" wrote:

Hi!

Each of you, please tell me, what was the biggest and most complex document
you ever created/edited with Word? Please, specify number of pages, amount
and complexity of tables, amount of styles etc. Did you experience any
problems with huge documents? What did it look like?

I'm going to create and maintain very big document in Word 2003 and I just
would like to know what problems or issue I may be faced with.

Thanks!