Limits on Number of Groups and Word Wheels

This article was previously published under Q107168

A Viewer title can have at most 200 total word wheels and topic groups. This limit includes browse sequences, which are a special type of topic group. Page 4-11 of the Microsoft Multimedia Viewer Publishing Toolkit "Technical Reference" incorrectly says that the limit on the number of groups applies only to searchable groups; the limit applies to the combined total of all groups and word wheels.

If more than 200 groups and word wheels are defined in the .MVP file, the Viewer compiler, WMVC.EXE, will generate the warning 8041: "Entry/Exit macro specification overflow." Any group footnotes in the RTF file that reference a group over the 200 limit will generate the warning 8161: "Bad group reference; all groups must be declared in the project file."