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Keyword List 1600 Word Limit

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Is there a way to get beyond the 1600 word limit in the keyword list? I can't scroll down father than "Benin." I use a flat list, not a hierarchy.
 
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Hi Ollie

No, it's a. limitation in Windows. It's mentioned in your Classic FAQ book (page 139, 2nd Edition) and using a hierarchy is the way round it.
 
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It's a fundamental limitation of an engineering shortcut the Adobe developers took when they first implemented Windows LR. You have some options:

- Introduce some kind of hierarchy and keep most of the parent keywords collapsed so that no more than 1600 keywords are showing at a time. You could use something as simple as A, B, C, D, ... for the top-level keywords.

- Use the Filter Keywords box in the Keyword List to reduce the number of keywords displayed. For example, if you type "playboy hilton", you'll see just the keywords that contain the strings "playboy" or "hilton":

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- Use the Any Tag plugin for applying keywords very quickly and searching by exact keyword.
 
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Thanks for clarification. When I read that para on page 139 I thought it mean that the bug was in Lightroom. Now I see it's a Windows problem. Since my keyword list has 15 years worth of keywords in it I don't think I'll try to adopt the hierarchy method.
 
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No, it is a bug in the Lightroom version on Windows. As John Ellis wrote "an engineering shortcut the Adobe developers took when they first implemented Windows LR".
 
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