Thank you Jay:
We have broken the document into smaller tables (not exceeding 50 rows each)
and it worked.
It would be more effective to have Microsoft build a more powerful Word
application that would enable unlimited amount of rows using the Repeat
Header rows on each page and not causing the application to analyze and
taking time to handle simple navigation, changes, etc.
Please let know of this at Microsoft and this limitation is causing a lot of
headaches to a lot of my clients.
Note that Adobe Frame Maker has that capability of handling large tables,
and Word does not!
Thank you,
Carole Sigouin
Sr. Technical Writer
"Jay Freedman" wrote:
Carole Sigouin, Sr. Technical Writer wrote:
Would you have a solution to this problem? This 135-page document
(2.5 Mb) contains 2 large tables designed for a Glossary. It slows
down tremendously every time a person wants open it, work with it or
save it (it spools and analyzes the document endlessly...).
We're converted it as a Tab Delimeter format for ease of use but, it
is difficult to read and not easy to maintain. Would you have any
suggestions or this is a limitation in Word, not being able to handle
and compute large tables?
Carole
Word has always had trouble handling extremely long tables -- the article
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...FastTables.htm was written about 6
or 7 years ago, and not much has changed with respect to the items listed
there.
Split the tables into segments that are no more than 5 to 10 pages long, and
keep the document that way as long as it's being edited. You might want to
recombine the tables in a copy of the document in order to print it with
proper page breaks.
As an example, I've used Word tables to prepare an index/glossary from page
proofs of a textbook, generating more than 8000 table rows covering 185
pages. By never allowing any single table to exceed about 50 rows, I was
able to work on it with no noticeable slowdown.
--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
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