Can't insert more than 19 files at a time into Word, How raise limit?

[billyraybob]

Office Version: Home & student 2007 (only Word installed)
Operating System: Windows 7
When I am trying to add files to an Word document under Windows 7 if I select more than 19 files it will only add the last 19 selected, where under XP it would allow 50. For example, if I have 30 files labeled file-01.htm, file-02.htm, file-03.htm, ... file-30.htm and click on file-30.htm then hold the shift key and click on file-01.htm, then click on the insert button, I will see files 01 thru 19 have been added to the document. I can add the remaining files by selecting file 30 thru 20, but this becomes tedious when trying to merge 100 or more files into the document. Is there any way to increase then number of files to be inserted? I used HTM files as examples, but same thing happens with other file types. I searched Word and Windows 7 options & help files, no mention of a limit.

Bill Roberts

 

[TonyJollans]

Could you expand a little on this, please? How are you inserting these files? And how are you identifying the limit?

I'm not aware of any limit, and don't see one on Word 2007 on Vista (I just inserted 60, without a problem, as a test).

It may be no more than coincidence but I believe the default number of recently used documents to remember is 19, whilst the maximum is 50 - but that has nothing to do with inserting files in another document.

Enjoy,
Tony

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[billyraybob]

Right now my face is very red. I just tried to reproduce the problem with a different set of files, and could not.
I think that the problem might be limited to the particular files I was trying to add. The problem was very real, I hit the undo, then tried it twice more, before giving up and accepting the limitation when I first noticed the problem, thinking I had done something wrong. As this happened right after I upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7, I figured that it was a bug in Word that was triggered by the upgrade.

I cannot remember which of the stories I downloaded had the problem, so I will just have to wait for it to reoccur in the future. If it ever happens again, I will save the download so I can reproduce the problem.
Thanks for the help.
Regards, Bill Roberts

Bill Roberts

 

[MakeItSo]

Hi Bill,

There probably was simply a problem with the 20th file.
HTML files you say?
Well the problem with Word is, that it validates Markup files before opening them; so if there is some invalid reference to a DTD, Namespace, CSS or whatever, it might have simply choked on THAT.
;-)

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