I found the maximum number of pages possible in MS WORD.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2005-04-12 12:55am

Something funny happened to me at work today.
I was helping a customer debug something with his server.
The server runs an OS based on Linux and he had trouble
seeing users from a trusted windows domain.

So, I turned on a debugging utility for winbindd. After about
10 minutes there was a 2mb log, so I went to lunch. When I
came back there was a 162MB text file.

When I opened it in MS Word it took about 15 minutes and
finally errored out that I reached the maximum number of pages
supported in a Word doc.

I had reached 32,000 pages. Hahah.

Anyway, I thought it was funny.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2005-04-12 01:27am

Is that just the *.doc format, or is it Word in general? Do txt and rtf formats support higher page counts?

Post by **Beowulf** » 2005-04-12 02:37am

Damn 16 bit applications... was it 32,000 exactly, or 32,767 pages?

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2005-04-12 02:38am

Damn, there goes that follow up to "War and Peace" I was thinking about writing.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2005-04-12 03:09am

I wonder what program is used to write the Federal Tax Code.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-04-12 10:44am

good god that's fucking huge. even the biggest book i've ever read was no more than 1,200 pages.