Re: IT question

From: 14tonks (mail.2.14tonks_at_recursor.net)
Date: 02/05/05 

Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 16:31:37 -0500

"Su" <.@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:YQ9Nd.37696$BQ2.19496@bignews6.bellsouth.net...
> "14tonks" <mail.2.14tonks@recursor.net> wrote in message
> news:36klfhF50443tU1@individual.net...
> > The problem with AutoCorrect is that the maximum number of entries it
can
> > hold is 7000, some come preinstalled for its real purpose of correcting
> > typos on the fly, and it frequently corrupts and loses all entries after
> > you
> > go above 3000 or so entries. Most people with IT have tens of thousands
of
> > shorts in each of a number of glossaries.
>
> I've got close to 13,000 entries in AC, so I don't know where this 7000
> limit came from.
>

>From sadder but wiser users. I'm delighted to hear you have exceeded the
advertised limits with no problem; may it continue to be that way for you.
You will find message boards filled with reports of problems from less
fortunate souls, though. AutoCorrect slurps up memory, and the more you put
in normal.dot, the more problems you are likely to have, and the more often
that very corruptible file is likely to corrupt. 

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