What's the file size limit for Word?

I hope you are having a good day so far.

I was wondering, is there a hard word limit in Word? For example, can I write an encyclopedia in it and not worry about anything but CPU and memory? I know that it says there is a 32MB pure-text limit on the Microsoft website, but I have successfully surpassed the 32MB mark. I'm doing a huge project and I don't want to fint out that the program I'm writing in can't hold all my thoughts. (I tried HTML Help, but since it's 32-bit, it's out of the question)

Here's the screenshot:

Just in case it is useful, Word is using 870.2 MB of RAM and it is full of Lorem Ipsum text. I'm on Windows 11, but it would be nice to know if this limit is active on macOS as well.

Thanks in advance and enjoy the rest of your day. ✌️

Microsoft clearly states this 32 MB limit (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/word/operating-parameter-limitation)

Whether it's hard or soft and how it's calculated is not mentioned.

However, the real limitation here is performance. Once you get a real document - with table of contents, references, maybe even pictures, tables and charts - it'll start performing very slow as you're increases.

Over time it'll just reach a level to be practically useless.

(I reached that level with documents of 100 - 200 pages, however it strongly depends on structure and content)