I open a word doc that was emailed to me from a windows user. I see the document open and can see the first screen of it quickly. Then Word freezes and if I click on the scroll bar, nothing happens and I get the spinning beach ball. This lasts for a few minutes then the document is usable in a normal way. [other programs running work fine during this time, it only seems to impact Word] There are no graphics, or linked material that would cause the scroll to generate processor overhead. It does not happen with documents created in Word for OS X. Is anyone experiencing this or am I imagining it. Thanks, ...Marco.
Spinning beach ball or slow down or freeze on opening windows sourced Word doc
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Spinning beach ball or slow down or freeze on opening windows sourced Word doc
by Marco Coulter » Sat, 13 Aug 2005 20:54:29 GMT
Re: Spinning beach ball or slow down or freeze on opening windows sourced Word doc
by John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh] » Sun, 14 Aug 2005 00:32:23 GMT
Hi Marco: That document contains a very large quantity of "trash" that Word is skipping over before it can show you the result. Copy all except the last paragraph, create a new blank document, paste into the blank and save under a new file name. That should clean the document out and it should operate correctly from there. Cheers On 12/8/05 9:54 PM, in article BF220635.3713% XXXX@XXXXX.COM , "Marco -- Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410
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