James Knott wrote: > I have never worked on a document that size, but my understanding is > it's best to use a master document, that ties together several pieces, > such as individual chapters. While I don't know the details about your > situation or if Linux will make a difference, Linux is generally more > stable and delivers better performance on the same hardware. If you > actually ran out of space (combination of memory and swap) you could try > making your swap file bigger. You can get "Live" Linux CDs or DVDs, > which will allow you to see how well it works for your needs. You might > try the one from opensuse.org. It should contain OpenOffice. > > Thank you again for getting back to me. I'm a total beginner when it comes to linux and don't want to end up in the situation I had with Windows. I had been working with it for nearly 20 years, then it trashed portions of my document without telling me that it was on overload. The master document sounds the best bet if I could only figure out how to get out of the navigation window! I suppose if loss of document content wasn't so crucial I might be brave enough to give it a go and see where I have problems. I tried it with chapter 1 to 23 which I have in a big chunk, but couldn't seem to add a sub document to the end of that. The second document seems to come up and wipe out the first. Good thing I had everything on the flash drive. Will try the opensuse.org but my problem there is once it is sitting looking at me, I don't know what the commands are to make it do something else. Don't you just love beginners! > >
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