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Hi,

this time I'm really in trouble with something, tried hard to solve the 
problem but no success. Maybe you can help.

My goal is to generate a merged ducument (my thesis) from a number of 
separate ducuments (the chapters). The size of the chapters varies from
about 30K to more than a MByte (has tiff files in it). Now, if I try to
work my way through the procedure of copying one document's content and 
"paste link" it into the main file (the one where I want to have all du-
cuments to merge) it works fine for the small documents (with format, 
styles and everything) but instead of importing the big ones it places
a link-bracket with nothing in it in the file (this thing is really nasty,
because you can't select it and unlink). If I close all documents and save
and then open the main file again it asks me whether I want the links to 
be active. Pressing yes gives me a message that "memory is low, close some
windows." However, I set Word to 3MB and the finder Memory to 500K, that
should be plenty. So Word opens the file listing all the shorter files as
expected but again the nasty brackets for the large files. The strange thing
is that this feature is made to deal with large files, but it can't handle
them.

Calling Microsoft the told me that I have a problem with my HEAP and that
I need a heapfixer (of course they don't know where to get it) to work
around the problem. They assured me that this is not a problem of Word
but why does that then happen only with Word. Word must use the heap in
a way which is not in agreement with the Mac system software, though it 
is a problem of Word? As I said before, I adjusted the memory that the 
finder is using by restarting with system 6 and allocating 500 K to the 
finder. 

I would really like to generate a joint ducument in which I can see everthing
together pagenumbers, EndNote references etc without having to plug in 
everthing in one monster file with 4-5Mbyte. Any ideas?

Thanks a lot.
Tom

tlh@kirkof.psu.edu