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Just to be explain a bit more, The document I'm working on is a c. 60
page, 150-200 k newsletter that I've been producing for about 2 years on
Word 5.1 - it has multiple columns, multiple sections, a lot of other
formatting, but all this should be standard word stuff. But it won't open
in Word 6 on my PowerMac 7100/80, and I get the same reaction from my
PowerBook 520c. (And I've also found it to be cross platform - Word for
Windoze 6 won't open it either).  I can of course go back to word 5.1 and
open the files up no probs.

I've opened up 5 mb files with lots of graphics in Word 6 no probs; I can
open large (>250 k) Text Only files in Word 6 no worries - its just
*formatted* word 5.1 documents where the *text* content is over about 140
k (I haven't...

(I had said 40 k originally, but I've been going through a series of old
files to test where the limit is - seems I've found it just below the file
size I tried to open!)  

I've allocated Word memory up to 9 mb with extensions on and off - no joy.

I've now gone back to Word 5.1, trimmed out all the text for generating
the next issue and proceeded from there - once the text content is in Word
6 format, the file size can be as large as you want. (I opened a formatted
word 6 document of 468 k.)

I'd be interested to know why there is a limit in the size of the word 5.1
document that can be opened by Word 6.  (Would be problematic for anyone
intending to share files cross platform where the Mac user chooses to stay
on Word 5.1!)

> > I remember reading somewhere about Word 6 having trouble with large (>40k)
> > text documents.  For compatibility in exchanging files with colleagues on
> > PCs, I've recently migrated (perhaps foolishly) from Word 5.1 to Word 6.
> > Now I'm having trouble opening up an old Word 5.1 that was 144k.
> > 
> > I get the following error message:
> > 
> >   Too many word documents are open. Please close a window.
> > 
> > This is despite the fact that I don't have _any_ other Windows open in
> > Word, I've got heaps (24mb) memory, running RamDoubler (effective memory
> > =48 mb, RD=latest version 1.5.2) and 4500 k allocated to Word 6
> > (recommended = 3000).  I'm on a PowerMac 7100/80.

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