Well I've turned (back) off fast-save and done a few other things, but none seemed to help.
The problem did eventually go away after I did some long-winded open/copy-to-clipboard/close/tell it to keep clipped/open another paste/save... repeat 3-4 more times.

thanks for the info.

>>I have a document of only 91 pages and it has been heavily edited. However, I have edited bigger documents more.
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>>On this document I consistently get "There are too many edits on the document. The operation will not be complketed. Save your work."
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>>How do I get around this?... I have tried saving to another document, changing Save options to 'fast save' and checked to ensure that change tracking is NOT in effect.
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>>Thanks
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>I have gotten this #$%** sort of error especially when the document had some graphics.
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>Fast save is only active for 15 consecutive saves. The 16th. time you save, a "full save" is done. It is then that this sort of error appears.
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>I suggest you try to divide your document into pieces, and save them individually (copy and paste a few pages at a time, into a separate document).
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>Join the pieces with a master document (to maintain page numbering throughout the document).
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>HTH,
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>Hilmar.