Sorry I was on my son Ads' pc when I replied
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Thanks for your time.
There are no tables at all but numerous images.
Alot of the images, all pasted into doc. most have drawing objects and
autoshapes grouped with them.
Styles consist of 3 headings, Numerous bullets and numbering
The formating isn't complicated in itself but plays up as more editing is
done until it all grinds to a stop.
i.e. I could add a bullet or enter or start a new paragraph in page 20 and
suddenly the timer comes up ( which i guess is autoformatting in action) and
when it's done all the tabs and indents of previous bulleting goes aray not
respeting their setting and some are added like a.a.a.a.a.a.a.
or b.b.b.b.b.b
also I have to keep checking the header and footer because suddenly it
grows a few extra lines.
When it starts to grind to a halt with the timmer appearing too often the
size of the file goes from 28mb to 130mb !
I've been working on this file between 2 pcs. Word 2000 at the office and
Word Xp at home. But the problem happens with both.
I have been saving the file regularly by different names so have been able
to go back to last 'good' files to edit all changes. This is wearing me out.
So any help would be really appreciated.
Jen


"Jezebel" wrote in message
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Corruption as you describe usually relates to one specific bit of the
document: typically a graphic with an internal corruption or a table --
especially a very long table that spans several pages. You describe
recovering the document and everything was fine for a few days -- it might
be that during that time you didn't visit the bit of the document that
contained the corruption.

What sort of 'very complicated' formatting does your document contain? In
what way do AutoSave and AutoFormatting become nightmarish?





"jen" wrote in message
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Hi.
I'm creating a manual in Word for a program we use at work.
While I am working (40 pages) the formatting gets very complicated and
autosave and autoformating becomes a nightmare, Finally, Word halts for
ages as thought it's either updating or something, though it allows me
to continue on other applications. This can take up to 10 minutes. Just
adding one word or saving would take another 10 minutes. In the meantime,
the size increases constantly, from a normal 10 mb to 116 mb in just 2
minutes.
I know it's to do with formatting as this happens mostly when inserting
number/bullets. Normally the doc automatically adjusts and one can
backspace if necessary. However, in my doc, this causes the whole
document to go crazy, and takes forever, and gets worse by the minute.
While this is going on, I try 'saving as' in another name, but doesn't
help. I copy and paste, which has worked much in the past, as if
cleansed from whatever was plaguing it, but by now the file is
complicated, with many images and screen shots.

I have tried splitting the file up in three bits, copied pasted, fixed
the formatting and copied and pasted bit by bit. it worked!! But, then
after a couple of days, adding a little to it here and there, it happens
again, till it finally collapsed. The other day, it auto recovered on
2003 and something got fixed because it went down to 10,000 kb and worked
like a dream. Two days later (today) I'm just finishing it off at work,
small details, corrections and it starts to happen again, until I
couldn't even do my normal work. Word would just crash, every time I
tried to save it.

Any ideas please?
Also how can you repair a damaged file?
Thanks in advance