MS Word File Size Limitation

[Al Geist]

   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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