Saving a large document

[Ed]

Whn I try to tave a large (34mb) Word 2000 document to a
network share my Word locks up and the task manager tells
me word is not responding. Any help is greatly
appreciated.

Ed

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP - DELETE UPPERCASE CHARACT]

Hi Ed,

34MB is a couple of MB over the generally accepted maximum size for a Word
Document

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

But the 32 MB limit applies to text only, so if there are graphics, the
document can be larger.

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[Guest]

I have worked with large (30-100 mb) documents in MS Word 2000 for the last few years. The program is just not equipped for that size file. After about 30 mb, the document will occasionally do something squirrely like you mentioned, but when you approach 100 mb, the program goes insane. It reformats photos. It drops you on an entirely different page while you are working. Often I have been unable to be sure I had found ALL the changes that suddenly took place for no reason

I have experimented using large text documents to which I addedg photos. I have used documents of many 1-10 mb photos and a little text. I have used a few photos of 10-100 mb. In all cases I got the same results. In the properties of the program, it tells you it is not equipped to handle more than 36 mb

I have suggested to Microsoft that they add a feature to allow photos to be hidden while formatting and page divisions remain in the primary document. A link would be set in the primary document, and a particular photo, or other sub document, would not be activated till the printer got to that page, or till the viewer scrolled to that page. I still do not know whether they will take my advice

W.A. McCormic
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Have you tried checking the "Picture placeholders" box on the View tab of
Tools | Options?

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I have worked with large (30-100 mb) documents in MS Word 2000 for the

last few years. The program is just not equipped for that size file. After
about 30 mb, the document will occasionally do something squirrely like you
mentioned, but when you approach 100 mb, the program goes insane. It
reformats photos. It drops you on an entirely different page while you are
working. Often I have been unable to be sure I had found ALL the changes
that suddenly took place for no reason.

I have experimented using large text documents to which I addedg photos. I

have used documents of many 1-10 mb photos and a little text. I have used a
few photos of 10-100 mb. In all cases I got the same results. In the
properties of the program, it tells you it is not equipped to handle more
than 36 mb.

I have suggested to Microsoft that they add a feature to allow photos to

be hidden while formatting and page divisions remain in the primary
document. A link would be set in the primary document, and a particular
photo, or other sub document, would not be activated till the printer got to
that page, or till the viewer scrolled to that page. I still do not know
whether they will take my advice.

 

[Guest]

Suzanne

I have tried that. The document properties box still reflects the contents of all photos whether in view or not. Also, I have been unable to get such documents to print all photos automatically when printing the document. I can print one photo per print order, not the whole document including formatted photos

I would not begin to say I know everything there is to know about this option, but I have been unable to get it to do anything beneficial for me

W.A. McCormick

 

[Rob Schneider]

By chance is this document destined to be put on a web site? Can you
use features of an HTML page to link pictures external to the doc file,
rather than embedded them as Word does? What Word does with pictures is
great, but there are practical limits.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms

 

[Guest]

No. My documents are not meant for the web. They are books to be printed and/or written to DVD

Thanks anyway. Maybe some time in the future you can create such an option or vastly expand MS Word's capacity

W.A. McCormick