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Subject:Re: MS Word File Size Limitation From:hbacheler -at- aol -dot- com To:al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com, Michael -dot- Harris -at- innocon -dot- com Date:Tue, 03 Oct 2006 10:59:16 -0400
At one time, the maximumim size of a hard disk ws about 37MB.
That has changed, obviously. I saw an advertisement for a hard disk of
700 gb just recently.
At one time we had a size limitation of 16-bit addressing,m then
32-bit, and now work is being done on 64-bit addressing for hard drives.
I have a document that is 149 MB and no problems in Word. It includes
tables, jpg's, etc.
Harry
-----Original Message-----
From: al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com
To: Michael -dot- Harris -at- innocon -dot- com
Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Sent: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: MS Word File Size Limitation
Harris, Michael wrote:
Several years ago I remember reading that MS Word had problems handling
individ
ual files that were larger than 20MB. I was still able to create and
effective
work with master documents that could handle any number of
sub-documents, as l
ong as the total size of the files did not exceed the computer's
available RAM.
Does anyone know of the current limitation of the size of individual
files?
I thought I read somewhere the figure 37 MB, but I can't find where I
read that. I do know that illustration rich Word documents crash a
lot more than pure text documents, and that documents beyond 200
pages
are asking for trouble. Your use of master and sub documents seem to
be a solution to the latter.
Al
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