I sent my last big book out for external editing and moved on to my next project. In the meantime, it was brought to my attention that my copy of MS Word might have been pirated. It was Office 2021 LTSC (or something like that). So I bought a legal copy of Office 365.

However, the previous file now causes Word to hang repeatedly. It is ~300 pages long. All styles, no graphics etc.

If I hit CTRL P to print a page, I have to wait like 7 minutes for the print dialog to appear. And editing is impossible. Only viewing in draft mode helps a little.

Is this what I deserve for being a loyal, law-abiding, registered user?

I know how to tweak Word to speed it up, but I doubt anything there could be causing it to be so messed up.

What could REALLY be going on?



Thank you, and have a good day!

Susan Flamingo

UPDATE: I started Word in safe mode, and while it is a little faster, it is still choking and hanging on the file. So does this mean the file is damaged, and if so, what can I do about it