too many edits

[Daniel Rimmelzwaan]

I am pasting the content of a large document over to a new one, but Word
doesn't let me do that. It says "There are too many edits in the document.
This operation will be incomplete. Save your work.

The document I am pasting in has about 250 pages, but I have successfully
done this for larger documents already. Anyone has an idea what this means
and how I can work around this?

Thanks,
Daniel

 

[Fay Yocum]

I really don't know what your problem is. But I think what I would try to do
is to copy the complete document without the last paragraph mark. To do this
press Ctrl+Shift+* or click on the Show/Hide ¶ button (the one with the ¶ on
it). Now the formatting characters should be displayed. Click at the very
top of your document. Press Ctrl+Shift+End. This moves you to the very end
of the document and selects the text. The very last paragraph symbol is
highlighted. Hold the Shift key and press the left arrow once to deselect
the last ¶ symbol. Then copy and paste into a new doc. Turn off the
formatting characters like you turned the on.

Hopefully that will help, but no promises. Fay

 

[Daniel Rimmelzwaan]

No that doesn't help, but thanks for the suggestion.

I had another instance of this problem.... I took the old document and
instead of reformatting it in a new template, I just started making my
changes in the old one, telling the customer that it just wouldn't look as
nice. At some point, Word started telling me that there are too many edits,
and I was just simply SOL. It just will not let me make any more changes.

It appears that, just like in Excel, there is a maximum of something that
you can do to one document, and it doesn't seem to apply to file size or
number of pages. It feels to me that Word keep track of all changes instead
of the current state of the document.

So it looks like on the inside, Word keeps all keystrokes instead of the
content that you want to keep. So when you type "HELLO WORLD", and you
change that to "Hello World" by deleting the text, Word appears to remember
"HELLO WORLD <delete> <delete> <delete> <delete> <delete> <delete> <delete>
<delete> <delete> <delete> <delete> <delete> Hello World". This would also
explain why some documents take so friggin long to open, when there are only
like 100 pages in it.

I'm really in a pickle here, because it's starting to look like I'm gonna
have to retype the whole 400 page document...