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I also ran the test on a much larger document - 1458 pages (~500,000 paragraphs) of your sample text, then did a Find/Replace with:
Find = ^p^p
Replace = ^p
153,600 replacements were made.
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And how well did it perform? And did you try it with the 15,000 pages, 750,000 paragraphs I have specified? Again, there seems to be a threshhold up to which it works tolerably, then suddenly degrades dramatically. I could try experimenting with various sizes, but it's slow, so I posted my question to see if anyone has run into this, or has found some documentation on the matter, and maybe already knows what I want to know, without me (or them) having to conduct a laborious and tedious series of tests.
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In Print Layout view (and Draft view), there are most definitely things you can't do while Word is repaginating the document after such a Find/Replace. Hence, it will be slower when repagination is allowed. It will also be slower if Word is continually trying to spell-check the document. Turning off auto-save would likely also increase responsiveness in such a large document.
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Pagination is already turned off, as I wrote. None of the various views makes any difference that I can discern. Spell-check might help, but that's a pain in the neck to constantly turn on and off, depending on which document I have open, but if that would make difference between usable and not, I could live with it. Doesn't seem to help, though, or at least not enough to notice.
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Word is a word-processor, with all that entails. Clearly, you're not using Word for the purpose for which it was designed.
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I don't know about that - this is text, and I thought it should handle text, regardless of layout. I -think- it has something to do with the unusually large number of paragraphs, but I'm not sure - it's just my impression, hence my question, whether anyone
knows of such limits or restrictions.
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Word also handles ordinary 4Mb word-processing documents in its stride. I have some as large as 15Mb and more, all of which Word handles with ease.
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Yes, I know that. I wrote that myself, that I have documents of similar size but more conventional layout, all of which work normally. Word handles them without the slightest hiccup.
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Since you already have a solution (Notepad++) for your peculiar requirements, use that.
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I have several possible avenues, Notepad++ is one of them. But again, I'm looking for some definite information on the subject, before I abandon Word altogether.