[Carole Sigouin[_2_]]

Hello Macropod:

To convert to Excel was not a good idea, since we were looking at delivering
an editable file in Word to many people who are more comfortable using Word
rather than Excel.

We have broken the table into smaller 50-row tables and it worked.

This is a drawback from Word that should be investigated. Would it be
possible to have Microsoft build a more powerful Word application that can
handle this kind of capability that Adobe FrameMaker has?

This table issue of having to break the table and not being able to apply
the Header Row Repeat on each page (that causes the application to slow down)
is causing a headache to a lot of my clients.

Adobe FrameMaker has that kind of capability where you wouldn't have to deal
with this kind of issue.

Carole Sigouin

"macropod" wrote:

Hi Carole,

For a large table, you might find Excel is better suited to what you're doing. If need be, you can either copy & paste the Excel
table into Word after you've finished editing, or create a link between it and the Word document.

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Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


"Carole Sigouin, Sr. Technical Writer" oft.com wrote in message
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Would you have a solution to this problem? This 135-page document (2.5 Mb)
contains 2 large tables designed for a Glossary. It slows down tremendously
every time a person wants open it, work with it or save it (it spools and
analyzes the document endlessly...).

We're converted it as a Tab Delimeter format for ease of use but, it is
difficult to read and not easy to maintain. Would you have any suggestions or
this is a limitation in Word, not being able to handle and compute large
tables?

Carole