Microsoft Word Question - If I Keep Typing, Will I Fall Off The End Of The World

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This is possibly a really dumb question... But I'm working on a large project at the moment, and while I'm saving the chapters as separate files, I have another Word file which I'm using like a 'Skeleton whole project - a chronology, with all related quotes from interviews I've conducted dumped in unedited. I'm planning to 'sculpt' the project from this 'Skeleton', but its 50,000 words+ and about 80 pages at the moment, and I expect it to get much larger; is there an upper limit in size for Word files? I'm worried the program is just going to collapse when I reach a certain word/page count.

I've already broken 1 laptop, 1 mouse and 1 keyboard while working on this project, and want to avoid any further catastophes.

― stevie, Monday, 2 April 2007 11:24 (eighteen years ago)

I've already broken 1 laptop, 1 mouse and 1 keyboard while working on this project

how did you do that?

― ken c, Monday, 2 April 2007 11:31 (eighteen years ago)

laptop - not entirely sure how i fucked the cdr drive, but its fucked. also, right speaker is blown, again not sure how. i'm going to get it fixed, but my deadline is so tight i had to buy a z-grade laptop to complete the project on.

mouse - one of those retractable travel mice. for some reason, this weekend the wire became very glitchy - i assume a connection's broken.

keyboard - eh, its old. its also filthy. now, every couple of sentences, it'''''''''''''''''''''''l [grr fuck it just did it there] it'll get stuck on one letter/character.

just call me disaster area

― stevie, Monday, 2 April 2007 11:36 (eighteen years ago)

You can have much bigger files than that. I use files with 300,000+ words every day. Supposedly the maximum useable size is around 10,000 pages, but I don't know about that.

― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 2 April 2007 12:21 (eighteen years ago)

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