The Microsoft Word Insert File Menu Item Has Unreasonable Limitati

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William McIlroy

For research purposes I wrote an application that reads a TXT file and makes
a frequency analysis of the content of individual lines therein contained. I
have a folder of 481 Microsoft Word documents (.DOC files). I opened a blank
document and intended to fill it with the 481 documents concatenated so that
I could save a new document as a TXT file. The Insert File menu item failed
to fulfill my wishes. Even though I highlighted every file in the input
folder, it added only about 10% of the highlighted files. There was no
warning of this behavior. I found the problem as I examined the frequency
distribution of lines and discovered that certain lines known to be in the
481 documents were unaccounted for. Is this a bug or a feature? I worked
around the issue by using the Insert File function piecemeal: I performed an
Insert on a few files at a time.
 
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William

You can only select files so that the total path length is 255 characters:
it is a Windows limitation. That includes characters for paths - even if you
are in the same folder, they must be included.




message : For research purposes I wrote an application that reads a TXT file and
makes
: a frequency analysis of the content of individual lines therein contained.
I
: have a folder of 481 Microsoft Word documents (.DOC files). I opened a
blank
: document and intended to fill it with the 481 documents concatenated so
that
: I could save a new document as a TXT file. The Insert File menu item
failed
: to fulfill my wishes. Even though I highlighted every file in the input
: folder, it added only about 10% of the highlighted files. There was no
: warning of this behavior. I found the problem as I examined the frequency
: distribution of lines and discovered that certain lines known to be in the
: 481 documents were unaccounted for. Is this a bug or a feature? I
worked
: around the issue by using the Insert File function piecemeal: I performed
an
: Insert on a few files at a time.
: --
: William McIlroy
:
 
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