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Thread ID: 50147 2004-10-11 22:15:00 Word Doc so sloooooowwwww k8smum (6062) Press F1
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280364 2004-10-11 23:18:00 Peter,

is the minimum ratio supposed to be 2 or 3x ram.

Or total 500meg witch ever is greater

D. 		drb1 (4492)
280365 2004-10-12 05:08:00 > You could try from a fresh restart, if that dosent
> work I'd suggest you see the administrator and get
> them to speed your computer up, or tell your boss
> they are paying you for sitting around and doing
> nothing while watching this slow pig they call a
> computer.

Thanks for the advice so far. Things are still slow even after a restart. I can't complain to the "bosses" because I already have a PC with double the RAM of most of my colleagues. Anyhow, here's something interesting. I copied the Word file onto my flash drive, took it home (where I am now), saved it onto a lower spec machine (but still with 512MB) and it works great. Response still not instant, but 500% better than my work PC. What about that, then? Methinks I'll be having some stern words with the helpdesk tomorrow... 		k8smum (6062)
280366 2004-10-12 06:19:00 Ahaaaa

So, what's slowing things down is the network.
I'll bet your version of Word is accessing something like normal.dot over the network, or Word itself is not actually installed on your machine.
Try running it at work with the network disabled. 		TideMan (4279)
280367 2004-10-12 08:16:00 It wouldn't surprise me that, having copied and pasted the data from Excel to Word, there is a link remaining to the Excel spreadsheet and that is causing the slowdown when editing.

Try, if its not to late, saving the Excel spreadsheet as a tab delimited .txt file. Open the txt file in Word, select the text and under the Table menu select Convert / Text to table.

The specs of your work computer are more than adequate for working with MS Office. 		Davesdad (923)
280368 2004-10-12 08:43:00 > It wouldn't surprise me that, having copied and
> pasted the data from Excel to Word, there is a link
> remaining to the Excel spreadsheet and that is
> causing the slowdown when editing.
>
> Try, if its not to late, saving the Excel spreadsheet
> as a tab delimited .txt file. Open the txt file in
> Word, select the text and under the Table menu select
> Convert / Text to table.
>
> The specs of your work computer are more than
> adequate for working with MS Office.


If there was a link to the original Excel file, wouldn't there be a prompt to that effect? I'll try what you suggest tomorrow, though. Ta. 		k8smum (6062)
280369 2004-10-12 08:47:00 > Ahaaaa
>
> So, what's slowing things down is the network.
> I'll bet your version of Word is accessing something
> like normal.dot over the network, or Word itself is
> not actually installed on your machine.
> Try running it at work with the network disabled.


Really? And how do I disable the network, assuming I can do such a thing? I am certainly aware of network problems from time to time at work. The slowness of this particular document may very well be a symptom of network "difficulties". 		k8smum (6062)
280370 2004-10-12 09:32:00 > Really? And how do I disable the network, assuming I
> can do such a thing? I am certainly aware of network
> problems from time to time at work . The slowness of
> this particular document may very well be a symptom
> of network "difficulties" .

Well, if it's a Novell WAN (and probably any other network), when you first login you have the choice of running locally on your machine or connecting to the network, so you just run locally . Your IT person at work should be able to help you .

I've been here before . I found that Word was trying to access normal . dot over the network and I think it might have been trying to change it, but dozens of other people were also hooked in, so it sat and waited until normal . dot was free . I simply redirected Word to use normal . dot on my hard disk and everything was sweet . Simple to solve, but very hard to track down . 		TideMan (4279)
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