[John]

Many thanx to both who responded [I was suspicious of the index] - I am now
curious about the suggestion of Cyber Taz regarding the preference of saving
to disc instead of to flash drive. I had figured that using the flash was
safer - it got it stuff completely as possible away from any possibility of
harm, and didn't add anything to the space used in the machine. So [1] what
is the problem here ? [2] I've saved to 'My Document' before,but I've never
saved directly to C; so I want to understand the process: Am I correct that
the path would be FileSave AsSave InC ? [Incidentally, I defragged, and
that helped some] And again, many thanx [Delaware,USA]

"john" wrote:

Using XP, Word 2002, and having about 15GB of space left on the C drive:
I'm preparing a genealogy-type paper, and I have entered about 150 pages
[920KB] of text,- about 150 pp. of index [10 MB - 3 col.-surname, given
name, page #, gridlines showing]. I frequently use Ctrl+S, and every couple
of days, send the whole mess to E [flash drive]. And I still have to add
about 50 pp of text, and about 30 to index. And the machine is getting slow.
QUESTION: is my frequent use of Ctrl+S responsible for the increasing
slowness - what should I have done - what should I now do to get things
going a little better ? TIA