I understand everything you are saying. I believe there is a 32 meg limit on Word files. I usually get these by pasting in large photo type images. At a couple of megs a piece it builds up fast. I have already started breaking reports into sections. I thought there may some other technique. Also, I have several hundred megs available as far as memory is concerned. Memory does not seem to be an issue in this case. Separate or linked documents may be the only way out.
Thanks for your suggestions.
On Dec 2, 2003, at 10:29 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Larry Blodgett wrote:
Can any one confirm this memory limit on Microsoft Word under OSX. This is the native version.
what limit are you talking about?
Word does (and has always) store the entire document in memory, so you are limited by available memory as to the maximum size of a document. Under OSX, given the virtual memory scheme used, that could be very large indeed.
However, long, LONG before you reach that limit on the average modern Mac, you're going to run into all of the other horrible 'Large file in Word' problems of file corruption, horrifically slow performance, and vicious 'take my document with it' crashing.
This happens Mac or PC. Word is flat out NOT designed as a large document word processor, it *sucks* as a large document word processor...think chapters, not the entire book. Chapters may need to be split. (we have several professors who have written books here, using Word. ALL of them have learned this lesson the hard way. The ones who didn't heed our advice and store their documents on our file server, where we do nightly backups, learned it harder than the others)
If you're doing a large document in Word I *seriously* recommend that you create a linked document, breaking the document into multiple files.
You don't know panic until someone comes to you and says 'Word just ate the only copy of my thesis! HELP!!!!!'
And for everyone who will chime in 'But I edited my 10,000 page novel just fine in Word', good for you, count your blessings and don't tempt fate again.
-- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group
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