[Graham Wideman [Visio MVP]]

Folks:

I am encountering a situation where editing a Word doc which is loaded from
a network share is extremely slow, whereas editing the same doc copied to a
local drive is fast -- and for none of the simple reasons I guessed.

More clues:

-- Word 2003 SP2
-- Doc is about 500 K, and contains a large table about 10 columns wide and
8 pages long.

Example slowness: move the table column width adjuster. On the local doc the
reformat occurs immediately, on the network doc it takes seconds.

Now the interesting clue:

With FileMon I can see that in the case of the network doc, Word is doing an
extensive amount of reading of little pieces of data from the file,
constantly, and especially during this kind of edit. In the case of the
local doc, Word seems to load the whole thing and rarely interact with the
disk.

Presumably, all that excessive file reading is slowing Word down.

I've even tried to fool Word by setting up a mapping to the shared net drive
(so it's now "drive X"), but no dice, same problem.

Can't for the life of me think why the behaviour would be different in one
case vs the other, or what option might impact this.

Any ideas?

Graham