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How to Stop MS Word from Making Computer work so hard when MS Word itself has only minimal work
I am working with a large MS Word document of 700 pages. Any time I have the document open, it is all-too-often repaginating or doing some or other task for which it puts the cursor in "think mode", or lists itself as "Word not responding". And even when these activities are not going on it finds one way or another of making my laptop fan race like no other program does. This is a new computer and quite well endowed; even then, MS Word puts quite high demands on it. I followed the online instructions for turning off repagination, and still the repagination continues. When all I am doing is typing text and doing other such routine tasks in MS Word, I would not expect the program to be so demanding of computer resources. Is there any way to instruct MS Word to cut out all the extraneous task making and just keep itself to the basic work of word processing so that my computer can relax?
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Try working in draft mode.
Use styles in formatting your text rather than direct formatting. This becomes especially important with long documents. Importance of Styles in Word |
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How can I really turn off repagination? Do I need to work in draft mode in order to really disable repagination?
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I read your question as broader than background repagination.
File > Options > Advanced > General area Uncheck Allow background repagination. You may have to shift into draft view first. If you need a macro, the command is: Code:
Options.Pagination = False |
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You are right, my question was indeed broader than background repagination. But repagination is I believe one of the main factors at play here, and when I got your reply that I'll have to work in draft mode in order to avoid all those hifi high-resource-utilizing auto functions of the program, then I thought well let me at least get rid of repagination and see how it runs.
Re the repagination box in advanced settings, I have disabled that long ago-- doesn't seem to keep MS Word from moving right along with its work of repagination. It doesn't appear to me that the check box does anything. It does its repagination just as much as it used to do before I unchecked that a couple of months ago. |
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Then try the styles route.
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