Larry Blodgett wrote:
If you're doing a large document in Word I *seriously* recommend that you create a linked document, breaking the document into multiple files.
You don't know panic until someone comes to you and says 'Word just ate the only copy of my thesis! HELP!!!!!'
And for everyone who will chime in 'But I edited my 10,000 page novel just fine in Word', good for you, count your blessings and don't tempt fate again.
I'm sorry, Larry, but I'm going to say that I've never had trouble with "large" (ie lengthy) files in Word as long as they were text-only. I have written two novels in Word 5.1 and Word 6, both in the 300-page/1 MB range. The first one was written on a Centris 650 running OS 7.6, no less, which should give you some idea of how long I've been doing this.
Slow performance -- well, yes, it slowed down a bit doing word counts and repaginating when I got up over 200 pages ... but that was on the Centris and on an 8100/100. I now have a 450 mHz G3, still with Word 6.
On the other hand, when graphics are involved, Word almost invariably crashes. I've even had trouble printing big tables in color in Word. I'd use Quark or PageMaker if I need illustrations.
I can imagine worse than if my entire file disappeared. So I'd like to know more about these corruptions and crashes. What version of Word are you talking about, how big are these files, and were there graphics involved? Did they seem to save normally, only to turn into garbage later on?
Joann
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