Re: Maximum File Size

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Hi Haitham,

A file that size most likely has many embedded graphics. You can make the
file much smaller by deleting them an inserting links to them instead. This
also has the benefit of allowing the images in the file to update if you
change one of the graphics, without having to re-insert it.

The only drawback, and this might be significant, is that the document's
portability is reduced, since the links in Word will refer to the original
path to the linked image, even if the files are moved (eg emailed). Then,
you'd need to send both the document and the images, plus update the links.
Link updating can be done via Search/Replace in simple cases or via a macro.
For the latter, see:
http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/showthreaded.pl?Number=261488
(url all one line)

Cheers


"Haitham Jalanbo" <Haitham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:218101c53929$4cdfe0b0$a601280a@xxxxxxxxxx
> I have a Document that is getting real big (about 50MB).
> Any time I try to add to this Document, I get the
> following error "The disk is full trying to write to
> C::. Free some space on this drive.... ". From here on,
> it doesn't mater where I try to save it or how much free
> space I have, I still get the same error.
>
> I know MSWord 2000 and up has a file size limitation of
> 32MB. Is there anyway around this limitation without
> having to fragment the document and lose the automatic
> Paragraph numbering?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>


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