[MelissaG]

How do I turn off versioning? Thank you!

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Working with very large documents is always going to be slow. If you work in
normal view with background pagination turned off (tools options
general) then the processing overhead is less. Only switch to print layout
when you are reasonably satisfied that the document is as you want it to be.

The file may be corrupt. - display formatting characters - click ¶ or CTRL+*
and copy all but the last paragraph mark into a new document. Turn off
versioning - and use a macro to create separate versions
http://www.gmayor.com/save_numbered_versions.htm to keep the file sizes
down.

Most important of all - get rid of the mess you have made by crashing out of
Word - http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm and when Word
says it is busy, give it the benefit of the doubt and go and make a coffee
or something while it finishes.


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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


John Ilott wrote:
I am operating Word 2003 on a relatively new PC with 512 Mb of
memory. I am working on a thesis that is approximately 30,000 words
long, but due to the tables in the document, the file is 65 Mb.

In most cases, the file is fairly easy to manage, but as soon as I
try to format in any way, Word freezes (that dreaded hourglass hangs
on the screen) and tells me that Word is not responding. Then I have
to Ctrl+Alt+Del and restart Word.

The formatting I refer to includes indents, bullets or numbering,
changing normal font to bold, changing the colour of a cell in a
table and so on.

I have thought of splitting the document into smaller sections, but I
have so many cross references and endnotes, I'm not game to try this.

Am I doing something wrong? Is Word incapable of handling a file this
large? Is there something I can do to improve performance?

Thanks in advance for any advice you can give.