Word Cannot Open This File Because It Is Larger Than 512 Megabytes! – MS Word File Repair Blogs

Published by Jacob Martin on July 24, 2015

The actual maximum size of a Word document limits to 32 MB for the total document text. This limitation does not include the graphics. The document contains both the text and graphics that are limited to 512 MB.

You know that how hard it is to create a document which is big.  Before maximizing the size limit the maximum page limit that must be imposed then you will get the “You have exceeded the maximum number of pages supported by Microsoft Word” message. Then give up at the 1.7 Mb mark but we don’t know how many pages the document had because the Word messed it up.

Solution to open Word Larger Than 512 Megabytes

Anyway the solution for opening the file which is larger than 512 Mb. Then assume that there is a vast majority of documents size this is accounted by the graphics or other media, and then there is a way to separate out this hefty content. You need to rename the document to have a .zip extension. This does not mean that you need to compress the document. It means that you need to change the file extension. In this case no compression is necessary. Then in the Windows Explorer, you need to open the Word folder. From the inside media folder you need to find all the images etc. which is used in the document.

You need to either delete these files if you don’t need them then move them to a different location if you want to keep them. Then the next thing you need to rename the document’s file extension to the .docx and you will need to open the document in the Word again. Then whenever you get the location in your document where an image that is used to be (before you deleted it), then you will see a placeholder.

You can even leave it, as it is and then select it and delete it or replace it with another image. Then you need to replace it, select it and then on the Format tab in the Picture Tools tab, then click on the Change Picture (in the Adjust group). Then navigate to a new picture or search for one, and select it and click on the Insert.

Then note that the Word will take a long time to open up large document. Then don’t make use of the ctrl + alt + delete. The Word provides a progress report and will open the large document eventually.

If you are not able to open the large files then in such a situation MS Word File Repair Tool can be a best choice. It helps you in recovering back your word files even it exceeds the limit of 32 MB. It is an easy-to-use tool which repairs corrupt MS Word (.doc, .docx) files without modifying the original text, images, fonts, headers/footers, and hyperlinks. You can see the preview of your files after completion of the scan process. With its Advance Repair Option it assists you to take the decision if you want to repair the Word file. If repair fails to remove corruption and provide satisfactory results, you can opt for Advance Repair for comparatively better results. This repair option of the tool is available for .doc files only.

Steps to Repair Word that Cannot Open This File Because It Is Larger Than 512 Megabytes:

Step 1: User needs to just select a single file by clicking on a ‘Select File’ option or simply on a folder that contains all word files. They need to click on the ‘Select Folder’ or need to find the file clicking on the ‘Find File’ option.

Step 2: As a list of selected file is displayed, user need to thus make the selection of the Word file by using checkbox that they want to repair. They need to select all files by marking the ‘Select All’ checkbox. After that they need to click on the ‘Scan’ button.

Step 3: He/she could easily saw the preview of the scanned file just by clicking on the file in both ‘Full document; and ‘Filtered text’ formats by clicking the tab given on the middle pane of the window.

Step 4: If the scanned word file sis a*.doc file, then there will a available preview in “Raw text” format along with the ‘Filtered Text’ formats and ‘Full Document’ and ‘Filtered Text’ formats.

Step 5: For repairing, user need to simply click on the click on the ‘Start Repair’ option. Then they need to make selection of the option for saving their file from ‘Save Document’ dialog box and thus click ‘Ok’ button.

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