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Old 12-08-2019, 02:48 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Notjohn View Post
I had no problem whatever cleaning up a 140,000-word non-fiction books with a few hundred endnotes. Word's endnotes did need a bit of massaging before they looked professional. ... The problem AFAI recall was Word's inability to display word count and spellcheck on a file so large.
140K words isn't large at all. I'm sure I've done WC, spell and grammar using Word 2002 on about that size with no problem on XP. I switched entirely to Writer a couple of years ago.
First used Word in Office 4.3 on WFW3.11 regularly, though I have used Word 2.0a on Windows before that.
Also no difficulty with that sort of size using a Wordstar Clone on CP/M and similar on DOS with 3rd party spell and grammar checking. I've used various actual Wordstar versions on CP/M and DOS and Wordperfect and MS Word on DOS too up till 1991.
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