You might see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/FastTables.htm to see if
that helps. In particular, be wary of table rows extending across more than
one page; Word doesn't like very long tables generally and especially has a
problem with long single-row tables; whenever it's possible to break a
table, it will help. I created a document (in Word 97 on a very slow
machine) that had hundreds of small tables and at least a hundred
photographs, and it was not unmanageable.
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"Stacie999" wrote in message
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Oh - this would be the thread you were talking about 
I assumed that
this site was different than the microsoft forum.....
Anyway - not a lot of graphics, but I do have some pages that were
scanned in and placed as pictures. Yeah, the huge part was on the 93MB.
I was pretty sure that Word could handle more pages than what I've got
so far......
The things in my document are a lot of tables. There's only a few flow
charts and about 10 scanned pages that were actually placed in there as
a picture. Do you think that is making the document so big? Should I
re-scan these documents (don't have them electronically) and try
again?
Suzanne S. Barnhill Wrote:
Well, 578 pages is not so long (Word has been known to handle up to
10,000
pages), but 93 MB is huge. Given that the limit for text in a Word doc
is 32
MB, I would guess that you have a lot of graphics. You can optimize
performance (whenever possible) by working with the document in Normal
view
with repagination disabled and picture placeholders enabled.
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Words into Type
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"Stacie999" wrote in message
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I've searched the threads and can't seem to find this particular
problem....
I have a VERY long document - 578 pages so far. I've formatted and
added styles and levels to all that I want in the table of contents.
I
tell it to create the TOC using 3 levels and it does it, but when I
click on anything after Word freezes and does not respond.
Think my document is too big? It's 93mb so far and I have lots more
to
add to it. I've done a disk clean, defrag but it still hangs up and
it's only this document. I'm using Word 2003....
Any help would be appreciated!
Stacie
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