Editor’s clients often insist on Track Changes and it is not uncommon to have over 7000 revisions in a large document. Besides, it indicates that the editor has earned their fee.


Turning off pagination only applies to Draft view and turning off screen updating does not solve the problem.


I upgraded to Word 2021 and the problems disappeared. There is now no apparent limit to the number of revisions and the processing time for a particular document was reduced from 20 minutes to 44 seconds.


Several users I have been in contact with have said that Word 2019 has become unstable following recent updates. It appears that bugs have been introduced and some of them involve revisions.


My macros need to be run in different versions of Word. I could use compiler directives if I can determine work arounds for the 2019 problems.