Hi all,

I have a number of large documents that we are trying to open, and they are
taking an incredibly long time to open fully. I get the first few pages
quickly, but then you see the pages down the bottom left increment very
slowly. If I do a ctrl-end it repaginates very quickly and gets to the last
page fast.

Any ideas what could be causing this ? Office2K on both XP and Win2K
machines.

cheers,

Adam

Adam

Just to clarify please: these documents are slow even when you have copied
them to your local HDD and opened them from there?

Would clarify how large is large? Are they complex - loads of
bookmarks/cross references, graphic objects or very long tables for
instance?

How much RAM do you have in your computers?

--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://word.mvps.org/


"acs68" wrote in message
...
: Hi all,
:
: I have a number of large documents that we are trying to open, and they
are
: taking an incredibly long time to open fully. I get the first few pages
: quickly, but then you see the pages down the bottom left increment very
: slowly. If I do a ctrl-end it repaginates very quickly and gets to the
last
: page fast.
:
: Any ideas what could be causing this ? Office2K on both XP and Win2K
: machines.
:
: cheers,
:
: Adam
:
:
:

Hi,

yes , they are slow from hdd as well as the network

The document is about 1000 pages long.

They are mostly letters that are pasted into the document over a month. We
have one large correspondence file that we add each letter to as they are
typed.

I wouldn't imagine they are very complex docs at all.

Converting to rtf and opening as such seems to fix the problem.

Any ideas ?

cheers,

Adam


"TF" terryfarrell%40%6d%73%6e%2ecom wrote in message
...
Adam

Just to clarify please: these documents are slow even when you have copied
them to your local HDD and opened them from there?

Would clarify how large is large? Are they complex - loads of
bookmarks/cross references, graphic objects or very long tables for
instance?

How much RAM do you have in your computers?

--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://word.mvps.org/


"acs68" wrote in message
...
: Hi all,
:
: I have a number of large documents that we are trying to open, and they
are
: taking an incredibly long time to open fully. I get the first few pages
: quickly, but then you see the pages down the bottom left increment very
: slowly. If I do a ctrl-end it repaginates very quickly and gets to the
last
: page fast.
:
: Any ideas what could be causing this ? Office2K on both XP and Win2K
: machines.
:
: cheers,
:
: Adam
:
:
:

If opening in RTF and then converting back to a DOC resolves the problem,
then they have become corrupt. Switching to RTF and back is one way that
often removes corruptions.

--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://word.mvps.org/

"acs68" wrote in message
...
: Hi,
:
: yes , they are slow from hdd as well as the network
:
: The document is about 1000 pages long.
:
: They are mostly letters that are pasted into the document over a month. We
: have one large correspondence file that we add each letter to as they are
: typed.
:
: I wouldn't imagine they are very complex docs at all.
:
: Converting to rtf and opening as such seems to fix the problem.
:
: Any ideas ?
:
: cheers,
:
: Adam
:
:
: "TF" terryfarrell%40%6d%73%6e%2ecom wrote in message
: ...
: Adam
:
: Just to clarify please: these documents are slow even when you have
copied
: them to your local HDD and opened them from there?
:
: Would clarify how large is large? Are they complex - loads of
: bookmarks/cross references, graphic objects or very long tables for
: instance?
:
: How much RAM do you have in your computers?
:
: --
: Terry Farrell - Word MVP
: http://word.mvps.org/
:
:
: "acs68" wrote in message
: ...
: : Hi all,
: :
: : I have a number of large documents that we are trying to open, and
they
: are
: : taking an incredibly long time to open fully. I get the first few
pages
: : quickly, but then you see the pages down the bottom left increment
very
: : slowly. If I do a ctrl-end it repaginates very quickly and gets to the
: last
: : page fast.
: :
: : Any ideas what could be causing this ? Office2K on both XP and Win2K
: : machines.
: :
: : cheers,
: :
: : Adam
: :
: :
: :
:
:
:
: