MS Word File Size Limitation

[hbacheler at aol.com]

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.geist at geistassociates.com
To: Michael.Harris at innocon.com
Cc: techwr-l at lists.techwr-l.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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