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Maximum Word Count for a manuscript?


Daryl

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I've been trying to compile a three part novel into one document. Each novel segment is about 120 000 words. When the document size reached 500 000 words, it became impossible to do ANYTHING in Storyist - opening the document now takes approximately 8 minutes. I'm running the most up to date version, as well as Mac OS X 10.7.4, on a new MacBook, with a 2.4 GHz processor and 2 GB of Ram.

 

Is there a maximum workable size?

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Hi Daryl,

 

There is no hard limit. Do you have all 500,000 words in a single file in the project, or are there multiple files?

 

One thing to try would be to switch to Normal view mode rather than page mode and see if that makes any difference.

 

I'd be happy to run some performance tests on your project if you'd like. PM me and I'll send you my email address.

 

-Steve

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