Microsoft KB Archive/66756

Word: Poor Performance When Paginating in Layout Mode

PSS ID Number: Q66756 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

5.50 6.00

MS-DOS

= SUMMARY =

When viewing extremely long Word documents or long text files in Word’s layout mode, actions that cause repagination of the document can take nearly an hour to complete.

An example of this can be seen if a 300-page text file (where every line is a separate paragraph) is loaded into Word while Word is in layout mode (choose Layout from the View menu). From the Utilities menu, choose the Paginate Now command to repaginate the document. The first 92 pages of the document will format quickly, but the remaining pages may take close to an hour to paginate. This example is a worst-case scenario.

The factor that determines when Word will experience a dramatic slowdown is the number of paragraphs per page. The fewer paragraphs per page, the more pages Word will paginate before the pagination process slows down considerably.

This problem will not occur if you are NOT in layout mode (choose Layout from the View menu to deselect layout mode).

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