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Word 2003 - Tables performance
I know this has come up here before... what I really want to know is
how to provide product feedback directly to Microsoft. I know about their MSDN feedback page, but that seems to be mostly for programmers, and doesn't include the option to comment on Office products. I've read a lot of suggestions in this newsgroup and on-line about improving performance for tables in Word. Unfortunately, all of these Web pages imply that this was a problem starting in Word 97, or in Word 2000. I was using Word 2000 up to a couple of months ago. It worked fine on my laptop, including complex documents consisting primarily of tables. I "upgraded" my laptop to Office 2003, and I'm horrified by the performance when you put a table into a Word 2003 document. I'm currently working with one document that consists almost entirely of tables (it's a test plan). When I paste text into one of these tables, or paste a new table into the document, it's go-for-coffee time. Literally: I just pasted a two-row table into the middle of the document, went down the hall, poured myself a cup of coffee, and came back just in time to watch Word finish the paste operation. Absolutely unbelievable. It was nowhere near this bad in Word 2000. Has anyone else noticed this kind of order-of-magnitude degradation in performance between Word 2000 and Word 2003? Does anyone know how to kvetch directly to MS about this? |
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I'd suggest that this might be a problem with your specific document.
Certainly tables have been a problem area in Word. But they are not *that* bad normally. In my experience W2000 was *worse* the W2003. There are some combinations of table effects that cause issues; and tables that span a lot of pages can be a disaster. In your case, I'd be wary of the document going corrupt -- long delays on pasting are sometimes a forewarning of a document about to collapse. Separately, try moving the tables (one at a time or by section) to a new document and see if the problem goes with them; and if you have very long tables, try splitting them. wrote in message ups.com... I know this has come up here before... what I really want to know is how to provide product feedback directly to Microsoft. I know about their MSDN feedback page, but that seems to be mostly for programmers, and doesn't include the option to comment on Office products. I've read a lot of suggestions in this newsgroup and on-line about improving performance for tables in Word. Unfortunately, all of these Web pages imply that this was a problem starting in Word 97, or in Word 2000. I was using Word 2000 up to a couple of months ago. It worked fine on my laptop, including complex documents consisting primarily of tables. I "upgraded" my laptop to Office 2003, and I'm horrified by the performance when you put a table into a Word 2003 document. I'm currently working with one document that consists almost entirely of tables (it's a test plan). When I paste text into one of these tables, or paste a new table into the document, it's go-for-coffee time. Literally: I just pasted a two-row table into the middle of the document, went down the hall, poured myself a cup of coffee, and came back just in time to watch Word finish the paste operation. Absolutely unbelievable. It was nowhere near this bad in Word 2000. Has anyone else noticed this kind of order-of-magnitude degradation in performance between Word 2000 and Word 2003? Does anyone know how to kvetch directly to MS about this? |
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Thanks for your suggestions. I took a more radical approach.
I rebuilt the document using colour coding for "test not done," "test failed," and "test passed" instead of one table row per test. My new document contains no tables. Word runs like spit now. If anyone knows how to complain directly to MS, I'm still interested. |
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