See replies to your posts in other newsgroups. In the Microsoft Word
newsgroups it is considered bad form to post separate messages to multiple
newsgroups. If you need to post in more than one forum (unusual) please post
a single message with both forums in the header of that single message. That
way (1) your question and the various answers stay together, (2) less space
is used on the news servers, (3) less bandwidth is used on the Internet, (4)
you only have to check one forum for answers that appear in both forums, and
(5) you won't unnecessarily annoy the people you are asking for help. This
isn't meant to criticize you. We were all beginners once and the only way to
learn is to try.  (BTW, a number of the Microsoft newsgroups don't want
posting in more than one newsgroup, period. Check the FAQ.)
Take a look on the MVP FAQ website under "getting help" for more reasons ase
well as other suggestions for getting answers more easily and quickly. <URL:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FindHelp/Posting.htm>

OK, now we have Nettiquette out of our system, let's try and answer this :-)

Word will cope happily with a 2,000 page document.

I recently published a 2,500 page document that was automatically assembled
from 400 source documents using a macro.

The absolute limit is around 5,500 pages.  But the "consideration" is
'speed'.  Word starts to slow down when it starts running short of memory.
Don't even think of handling large documents on a PC with less than 512 MB
of memory, and ensure that the file system of the local machine is NTFS.
Anything else and you are likely to get failures when things get big.

I would prefer to handle such documents on a workstation.  Personally I use
a dual-Zeon workstation with 4 GB of memory, but that's overkill :-)

To prevent file corruption:
*  make sure that all documents are created from the same template.
*  Make sure you handle tracked changes carefully -- particularly to avoid
changes within or on top of changes.
*  Perform all formatting using styles.
*  Turn on Show/Hide so you can see your paragraph marks.  Teach the users
to run with paragraphs on, and train them that the paragraph mark is the
most important character in the paragraph: it holds ALL the formatting :-)
*  Forbid the use of Format>Bullets and Numbering.  Make up a proper set of
linked numbering styles as explained by Shauna Kelly (www.shaunakelly.com)
and apply all numbering via styles.
*  With a document of that size, it's best to work with pictures linked but
not embedded: but make sure you train your users HOW before trying that...

The best way to combine the daily files would be using Insert>File.  Make a
macro to automate this.  I use a naming convention that causes the files to
sort in the correct order alphabetically in the folder.

Hope this helps

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