Bookmark Storage

[Chris Davies]

Hi,
I have some pretty large Word 97 documents containing many
(around 4000) bookmarks. When trying to add more
bookmarks I receive a "Word has insufficient memory.."
message - it seems that the document cannot cope with any
more bookmarks. Microsoft's documentation states that
Word 97 can cope with up to 16,000.

How are bookmarks managed? Why can I not even get close
to the 16,000 limit? Some of my bookmark names are fairly
long (between 20 and 35 characters) - would something as
simple as shortening the length of the name help?

Thanks!
Chris

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Chris,

My memory may be faulty on this, but I do seem to recall a
discussion, MANY years ago, that this limitation is, indeed,
a factor of the number of bookmarks & the lengths of the
bookmark names. IOW there's a limited amount of space in the
binary file for this information. So yes, try shortening the
names.

I have some pretty large Word 97 documents containing many
(around 4000) bookmarks. When trying to add more
bookmarks I receive a "Word has insufficient memory.."
message - it seems that the document cannot cope with any
more bookmarks. Microsoft's documentation states that
Word 97 can cope with up to 16,000.

How are bookmarks managed? Why can I not even get close
to the 16,000 limit? Some of my bookmark names are fairly
long (between 20 and 35 characters) - would something as
simple as shortening the length of the name help?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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