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Posted by Graham Rhind
Dec 4, 2017 at 08:28 AM
Word 365 (2016) 64-bit. Mind you, I wrote the 500 page first version in whatever Word version was around in 1997, and that handled it fine too.
xtabber wrote:
>What version of Word are you using? Office comes in 32 bit and 64 bit
>versions for the Windows environment. The 32 bit version is what is
>installed by default and recommended by MS for most users for
>compatibility reasons, but the 64 bit version (at least in Office 2016)
>is far better for handling large documents.
Posted by tightbeam
Dec 4, 2017 at 03:58 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
bobmclain wrote:
>>Word handles large documents, including ones with all the complexities
>>you list, just fine.
>Well, it depends what you mean by “handling.” It didn’t meet my
>definition. Partly it was the EndNote add-on that slowed things down,
>but even the time it takes to save a large file, crashes etc. just made
>it unusuable for my use case.
This is very strange, and makes me wonder what version of Word you’re using and on what computer. I’m not familiar with the EndNote add-on - but many of the books I publish don’t require footnotes or endnotes, and those that do rarely exceed a couple hundred of them (which Word accommodates quite nicely, with no crashes or slow loading/saving). The placement of files from Word to Adobe InDesign is pretty flawless, with notes appearing as they should, Word styles translated to InDesign styles, etc.
I think most authors don’t want to deal with “niche” third-party software. Just as authors using typewriters produced some pretty impressive books, authors using Word have done the same.
Posted by Hugh
Dec 4, 2017 at 06:12 PM
As I’ve written before in this forum, I lost 40,000 words in MS Word about ten years ago. For some reason, the back-up was lost too. It remains probably the worst thing that has happened to me in my computer-using life.
Around that time there were several pieces on the Internet about the risks of corruption using particular parts of the Word user-interface, and instructions on how to protect one’s work from such a fate. My loss was simpler; one moment I was able to edit my work, the next moment it was gone, and gone for good.
To be fair to Word, I had previously used it to put together more than one report containing upwards of 80,000 words plus numerous Excel charts and tables. But, as they say, once bitten, twice shy.
Hence the initial attraction to me of Scrivener and, for me, its most fundamental virtue: damage to one Scrivener document need not destroy the whole, because a Scrivener project is composed of a folder full of separate files. (I didn’t know then that a Word “document” is also a package of files, but working in a different, possibly less robust, way.)
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Dec 4, 2017 at 06:27 PM
Hugh wrote:
> My loss was simpler; one moment I was able to edit my work, the next moment it was gone, and gone for good.
My precious work always goes to a Dropbox folder. Even with the free account, you get 30 days of automatic backups, every version easily accessible, flawlessly !
Pierre
Posted by xtabber
Dec 4, 2017 at 07:03 PM
Hugh wrote:
As I’ve written before in this forum, I lost 40,000 words in MS Word
>about ten years ago. For some reason, the back-up was lost too. It
>remains probably the worst thing that has happened to me in my
>computer-using life.
In ye olde dayes (punch cards and magnetic tapes), we had a saying that if your data doesn’t exist in at least three separate locations, it may not exist at all. The cloud hasn’t changed that.