Re: MS Word File Size Limitation

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


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From: al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com
To: Michael -dot- Harris -at- innocon -dot- com
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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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References:
MS Word File Size Limitation: From: Harris, Michael
Re: MS Word File Size Limitation: From: Al Geist

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