Re: WORD document size limit (7/21/08)

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Macropod,
Thanks again for keeping up.
As I stated earlier, the whole thing started when I experienced totally unexpected crash and lost document because there was no way to recover it. (At that time the document size was approx. 35 MB.)
When I posted looking for help (7/8), Suzanne S. Barnhill, a Microsoft MVP (Word), kindly responded and made me learn that MS Word has the document size limitation of 32MB throughout its various versions (up to 2007), which I did not know.
So I posted again (7/21) looking for a word processor that allows a document size larger than 32 MB. In your response, you recognized the 32 MB limitation with the comment that it means 5000 pages. It would be true if the 32 MB is all dedicated to text contents. However, I found out that the bulk (80%) of a Word document size is used for the software itself (you call this part metadata), meaning the allowed "document" (as text characters) is limited to mere 8 MB (1000 pages if completely filled with characters save spaces).
Now you changed your opinion and say that Word does not have size limitation. Because you are a Microsoft MVP (Word) too, you must have access to Word programers knowledge and I sincerely hope you are right this time. If it is a public information, would you please lead me to where it is stated? I only wonder what caused the crash I experienced (7/8). Also if Suzanne happens to read this posting, would you like to comment one more time and educate me?
Now Graham Mayor (I thank him for sharing my curiosity) kindly did an interesting experiment by creating whapping up to 24000 pages documents without crashing although the pages are apparently only partially filled judging from the document sizes. (If the 24000 pages are all filled with characters, the document size as .doc would be about 1 GB according to my analysis.)
Finally, as I stated earlier, my document appears on the verge of crashing again if the "32 MB limit" holds. It will be nice to know from Word's programer whether Word is a program whose largest size is predetermined as kind of a prestructured buiding (like Excel) into which users simply pour text until all rooms are filled up or whether it is a program desined to continue to create and annex an empty unit accomodating increasingly added text. Until all clouds clear out, I will but timorously continue with as frequent saving as practically possible.

macropod wrote:
Hi Beyond X,

Word does NOT have a 32Mb limit on the file size. I suggest you re-read my reply to you from 21 July. All this 'concern' is based on a false premise.

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