Mary
Mon Jul 14 18:16:59 CDT 2008
Have you tried creating a text box, right-click, click change text, click text
file and browsing to your Word file? It would be better than trying to import a
Word document. You wouldn't need to adjust the margins and Publisher will
automatically create pages and text boxes.
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"ann" <ann@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> No problem with the memory - have lots. I inserted 150 pages to begin but
> somehow that knocked itself down to 107 after I began inporting the text from
> Word. Also when added pages got duplicate text pages in a foreign language
> which I had to delete one by one. This is crazy. I have absolutely no idea
> how that occurred. I will begin again at the beginning with 250 pages and see
> what happens? Maybe it will work wonderfully as these things are wont to do?
> Am still open to any and all solutions or idiosyncracies of the program!
> Thanks much.
>
>
> "Mary Sauer" wrote:
>
>> How much memory do you have? What about your swap (virtual memory) file? I
>> remember 2000 publications had a limit of a little over 2GB, I haven't been
>> able
>> to find the newer versions limit. I just now created a booklet with 200 pages
>> in
>> 2003 without issue. The pages are empty so it is only 131KB in size. Can you
>> insert 200 pages all at once before creating content?
>>
>> Are you getting errors?
>>
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>> Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
>>
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>>
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>>
>> "ann" <ann@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:0916B0C8-3DA3-43DD-8E48-FE7AD8ECFCB0@microsoft.com...
>> >I am doing a book that should be about 200 pages (each page is half an
>> >8x11).
>> > I now have 116 and when I try to add pages (on the INSERT menu) It says ok
>> > and then cuts me down to 16!
>> >
>> > I can't find anything that tells me how many pages one file can handle in
>> > Publisher 2003.
>> >
>> > The last book I did was on the original version of publisher! I can split
>> > the publication into two or more files, and probably will have to because
>> > pictures aren't inserted yet, but need to know about file size so don't
>> > have
>> > to do everything twice. Thanks
>> >
>> >
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