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Word File Size
VictorE2402 First thing I would do is make a back-up copy of the file.
While you are fortunate to have been able to open a file with a size of 2 GB, many users have not been so lucky at have had to resort to unzipping the document and opening it in an XML editor and then remove some of the images from the Word>Media folder and then re-zip the file and change the extension to .docx so that it can be opened.
Just out of curiosity, how do you plan on making use of the document?
Doug_Robbins_Word_MVP Thank you for your response. I need to create a big report with many images linked to a hyperlink table. So I started trying with python-docx for the first time (i should have made a search about max file size before starting though). The code creates a copy of the original file and outputs the new file with the images so the original file is left intact.
