Re: Large Documents in Word

[Lin Sims <ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com>]

I should probably add that I will (likely) not be converting documents from
Frame to Word. I would be creating new documents in Word. That's a little
better than converting, I know, but I still have the issue of setting
things up so I don't have to deal with constant crashes and corruptions.
And I have to set them up so that engineers can also edit the files.

My documents are very table- and graphic-heavy, too.

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>
wrote:

> Hi Lin,
>
> I had such a project last April and, sure as shootin', Word kept crashing.
> The native file was a PDF I had to manipulate in Word, so there was file
> conversion involved. One of the first things I did was strip out all
> graphics, to be added later after I had rewritten the work. Word was still
> crashing.
>
> That's when I "chunked" itâbreaking it apart into three separate sections
> enabled me to do whatever I needed with Word crapping out on me. Over time
> I reconverted each section to PDF and then used Acrobat Pro to merge the
> component files. All is well.
>
> > Chris
>
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Lin Sims <ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
> > Because of various changes at my company, I may be moving from FrameMaker
> > to Word.
> >
> > The documents I handle run into the hundreds of pages. I've never
> handled a
> > Word doc over 80 pages that didn't regularly crash or corrupt.
> >
> > I'm looking for people who have successfully handled very large documents
> > in Word. I need to pick your brains to find out how you do it. I'm a
> > moderately experienced user of Word, but I'm by no means a power user. If
> > this move is made, I'm going to need a lot more information.
> >
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