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Guest
I have looked everywhere trying to find the limitations of Word 2003. In other versions of Word you could find it in Help. Is there anything published on this?
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Guest
There has never been a size max for Word documents. The size of a Word doc is only limited by the amount of resources available on the PC on which the file is being used. Depending on the size of your document, perhaps the graphics are not in the best format, and could be compressed, or perhaps the document has become corrupt. Either can really bog down a file. However, I've had people say "Can I send you a really big file?", only to find it was 600KB and they thought this was big. To me, a big Word document is 10+MB, regardless of the number of pages. My entire Word book (330 pages w/about 100 graphics) was a little over 4MB
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Charles Kenyon
So far as I know there has been a limit on the size of Word documents (text)
of 32 Mb, at least since Word 97 and continuing into Word 2003. So far as I
know none of the limitations in Word 2003 are different from those in Word
2000. I didn't answer the original poster because I don't have a complete
reference for the limitations. I do, know, though, that there are real
limitations.
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file is being used. Depending on the size of your document, perhaps the
graphics are not in the best format, and could be compressed, or perhaps the
document has become corrupt. Either can really bog down a file. However,
I've had people say "Can I send you a really big file?", only to find it was
600KB and they thought this was big. To me, a big Word document is 10+MB,
regardless of the number of pages. My entire Word book (330 pages w/about
100 graphics) was a little over 4MB.
of 32 Mb, at least since Word 97 and continuing into Word 2003. So far as I
know none of the limitations in Word 2003 are different from those in Word
2000. I didn't answer the original poster because I don't have a complete
reference for the limitations. I do, know, though, that there are real
limitations.
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Charles Kenyon
See the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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is only limited by the amount of resources available on the PC on which theDreamboat said:
file is being used. Depending on the size of your document, perhaps the
graphics are not in the best format, and could be compressed, or perhaps the
document has become corrupt. Either can really bog down a file. However,
I've had people say "Can I send you a really big file?", only to find it was
600KB and they thought this was big. To me, a big Word document is 10+MB,
regardless of the number of pages. My entire Word book (330 pages w/about
100 graphics) was a little over 4MB.
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Jay Freedman
The citation is
WD2000: Operating Parameter Limitations and Specifications
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211489
WD2000: Operating Parameter Limitations and Specifications
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211489
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Charles Kenyon
Thanks. I wasn't aware that I was so close to some of the vba limitations! I
have over 100 global macros between my own and several commercial Add-Ins.
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Graham Mayor
FWIW I have a document here that is 97.5 mb which Word opens - slowly 
Before I converted it from RTF it was over 150mb.
I wasn't planning on e-mailing it.
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Before I converted it from RTF it was over 150mb.
I wasn't planning on e-mailing it.
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