Nothing in your description sounds like it should stress Word out. The file size and page count are certainly not excessive. I moved off Word 2000 a long time ago so can't test your file there anyway.

I would try saving the document in RTF format, closing, reopening the RTF and save back to doc format. That MAY help remove some corruption if that might be cause of your problems. If you have a more recent version of Word, you might try a similar process of saving to docx and then back to doc.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia