Format your document using styles, including heading styles. Then go into
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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
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"Rhino" wrote in message
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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I still want to be able to see the whole document as one continuous "book"
if at all possible.

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Rhino