[Nyco_ork]

I've just installed Word 2003, after using Word 2000 for six years. I have
several long documents (book manuscripts, between 200-300 pages each) for
which I use the 10% zoom when I want to check page breaks before chapters,
etc. This has always worked great in Word 2000. In Word 2003 the process of
drawing the document onscreen at 10% zoom has become intolerably slow. The
pages popped onto the screen in Wd 2000, and I could move the cursor from
page to page quite easily when I wanted to pick a page to blow up to 100% for
a closer look. Now moving the cursor to a page causes the entire screen to
redraw, and sometimes the cursor won't move at all. The whole procedure is
now so slow it is almost useless.

Is this because Word 20003 is keeping such closer track of style change? If
I do a paragraph in Italics, for instance, the style in the toolbar changes
to "Normal + Italics," where Word 2000 would simply report "Normal." Since I
do quite a bit of formatting, this is a big load. One document, with quite a
few graphics, also takes forever to save, whereas it used to save quickly and
easily.

I found that unchecking "show background colors and images" speeding things
up considerably, but not enough to solve the problem. Does anyone have other
suggestions? I'm glad to have all the fancy formatting options, but I'm not
sure they're worth the loss in speed when I'm editing.