Hi Rhino

Rhino wrote:
Is there anything I can do to make it easier to scroll within large
documents?

I have a very large document that I am trying to edit in Word. By large, I
mean 1077 pages.

How large in terms of filesize? If this is practically text-only, you
can use it. If you have a lot of graphics, long tables etc, expect a lot
of [insert your favourite "toxic" here] breaks ...


I've only just loaded the document into word but I'm finding it takes a very
long time to scroll up and down with the document; I can click the up or
down arrow on the slider and go away for 10 or 15 minutes only to find the
hourglass still spinning when I come back; my document is still on its
current page and hasn't moved in the desired direction at all.

I've got 512 MB of memory and the computer is running an Athlon 1700 so it
ought to have enough horsepower; I'm guessing that it is Word which is
struggling in trying to move around within the document.

I would not want to work with any long document with only 512 MByte of
RAM these days. Processor speed is often not an issue (well, I have to
work with a Pentium II notebook once a week this month, not too funny!
..-)) unless you have a lot of macrocode running which will profit from
CPU power. I'd try to get at least 1 GByte.


What can I do to make this a much less painful task? I don't actually have
too much editing to do but if I have to wait 15 minutes every time I try to
scroll down a page it's going to take me until retirement to get this done.

Aside form the structure of the document: Work in normal and outline
view. Almost exclusively.


Is there anything in the Options that will help with this?

Shut down most of the AutoFormatWhenYouDon'tLook stuff if you haven't
already. I would not want to use spell/grammer-checker, too.


Should I break the document down into smaller subdocuments and then link the
chunks into the master document? If that is the right approach, what is a
good size for the subdocuments? After all, if I make the subdocs too big, I
may be no further ahead in terms of scrolling performance but if I make them
very small, it increases the amount of work because I have to create all of
these smaller documents.

Don't go near master/subdocuments without an extensive study of the
relevant "literature" (search for "Word heretic masterdocument" or such
stuff).

You could investigate into splitting into smaller fragments ("chapters"
of a small 3-digit number of pages maybe) and build your own "master"
with INCLUDETEXT fields. Or leave the last step and use RD fields for
the compilation of TOCs, INDEX, etc.

Good luck!
Robert
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