Re: What is the maximum file size for a Word document?
Jezebel
32Mb of text, which is more than somewhat for a novel. Word files usually
have size-related stability problems only if they contain graphics or
copious complex tables. I've worked with text-only documents well into the
thousands of pages without any hiccups. If your novel is very large (are you
knocking Proust into a cocked hat?) and your computer has very little
memory, speed might become a problem.
"Minniemouse Driver" <Minniemouse Dri...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> How big can a Word document be? Does it become unstable when it reaches a
> certain file size? I'm writing a novel and would like to keep a lot of it
in
> one document.
Graham Mayor
backups. Any novel that anyone would want to read will easily fit in a
single document.
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Jezebel
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Misery Guts
> Graham Mayor wrote:
> > Minniemouse Driver wrote:
> > > How big can a Word document be? Does it become unstable when it
> > > reaches a certain file size? I'm writing a novel and would like to
> > > keep a lot of it in one document.
> > You *should* keep all of it in one document - make sure you make regular
> > backups. Any novel that anyone would want to read will easily fit in a
> > single document.
> so will most novels that *no-one* will want to read.
Don't believe them MinnieMouse, they're setting up an aunt Sally.
What you have to realize is that both Jezebel and Graham can make
Word sing and dance, and they can recover documents easily. When
you've that ability you can work Word at its limits. For us modest users,
you'll be lucky to get 400 pages double spaced - the size of a novella.
Jean-Guy Marcil
Dans son message, < Misery Guts > écrivait :
Absolutely not true.
Double spaced? What has that got to do with anything? So 400 pages single
spaced would not be recommended. According to this logic, I guess the limit
is 200 pages single spaced?
Hmmm...
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Graham Mayor
NONSENSE - without any effort or special skills of any kind Word will allow
you to produce documents of hundreds - even thousands - of pages of text. It
is only the addition of tables, section breaks and graphics that *might*
introduce a hiccup, however none of these are necessary for a novel.
Backups of any document that involve a lot of hard work should be made at
regular intervals.
Misery Guts
> > Jezebel wrotes:
> >> Graham Mayor wrote:
> >>> Minniemouse Driver wrote:
> >
> >>>> How big can a Word document be? Does it become unstable when it
> >>>> reaches a certain file size? I'm writing a novel and would like to
> >>>> keep a lot of it in one document.
> >
> >>> You *should* keep all of it in one document - make sure you make regular
> >>> backups. Any novel that anyone would want to read will easily fit in a
> >>> single document.
> >
> >> so will most novels that *no-one* will want to read.
> >
> > Don't believe them MinnieMouse, they're setting up an aunt Sally.
> >
> > What you have to realize is that both Jezebel and Graham can make
> > Word sing and dance, and they can recover documents easily. When
> > you've that ability you can work Word at its limits. For us modest users,
> > you'll be lucky to get 400 pages double spaced - the size of a novella.
>
> Absolutely not true.
I can see this is going anywhere, so I'm just going to hold my breath
until you admit it's true.
> Double spaced? What has that got to do with anything? So 400 pages single
> spaced would not be recommended. According to this logic, I guess the limit
> is 200 pages single spaced?
Not even! Double space is 1.5 times the normal leading.
I'm saying a raw 400 page manuscript, even before it's formatted, will
push Word over the edge.
Suzanne S. Barnhill
A book I created in Word 97 on a 200 MHz machine: 270 pages (single-spaced),
highly formatted, including hundreds of photos and tables and a 16-page
index
A book I created in Word 2002: 628 pages (single-spaced), highly formatted
(including three or four different fonts), with placeholders for
photographs, and an index.
Both books were camera-ready copy.
Also, note that 1.5 x the normal leading is not "double spaced" by any
definition.
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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
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Jezebel
Access databases -- the original document is created by code, listing all
the tables, fields, queries, etc etc; and is then worked on manually for
fine tuning the format. These documents are all minimum 2500 pages each; and
they've never been a problem. I've never had one of them crash. (And I've no
idea what 'recover a document easily' might mean...)
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