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How can I make Word cope with a 600+ page book?
I'm writing a text book using Word. It currently has over 600 pages. It
has subdocuments, but I need to work with the master document and subdocs expanded to be able to generate cross references. But this has bogged down my machine to the point that I have to wait a noticeable amount of time to see the cursor move when I enter characters. More for other things. I've been told I don't need more memory and I have enough swap space. What else can I do? I can hear the disk spinning almost constantly. |
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How can I make Word cope with a 600+ page book?
Hi AuthorinTexas,
Unless you want to lose all your work, forever, it's probably not a good idea to use the Master Document feature. See: http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/Wh...ocsCorrupt.htm You'll find you can achieve pretty much the same intended result by using INCLUDETEXT fields to link contents, and possibly RD fields for TOC purposes. If your documents use STYELREF fields and/or have lots of pictures etc embedded, this too will slow them down. For maximum speed, you could work in 'Normal' view with background repagination turned off. Cheers "AuthorinTexas" wrote in message ... I'm writing a text book using Word. It currently has over 600 pages. It has subdocuments, but I need to work with the master document and subdocs expanded to be able to generate cross references. But this has bogged down my machine to the point that I have to wait a noticeable amount of time to see the cursor move when I enter characters. More for other things. I've been told I don't need more memory and I have enough swap space. What else can I do? I can hear the disk spinning almost constantly. |
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