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Slow Performance Word document with many tables

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dreandre

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Mar 27, 2003
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Hello all,

I know Word does not do so well with multiple tables. Is there any way to trim down the document or clean out any saved data attached to the document to increase performance?

The issues I'm having are:
The document is a form and is protected. When updating some tables, it seems like the document refreshes after each character typed or deleted.
When printing, the printer takes 1 to 2 minutes to process each page (total of about 10-15 pages).
 
1. Check your printer driver.

2. could you please elaborate on:
The document is a form and is protected. When updating some tables, it seems like the document refreshes after each character typed or deleted

OK, a form I understand, and its protection. However, olease give more details of "updating some tables". And definitely give more details of what indications there are that the docukment refreshes after each character typed or deleted.

Do you have any code running?

Gerry
 
The document is an electronic document designed to collect multiple kinds of information about one county in california. The different kinds of infromation are set up as tables to allow customization for the various counties in Ca. (by deleting uneeded tables). Some tables have a table within a table and they also have form fields and checkboxes.

The document is protected so that users can tab from field to field and enter the data. This is what I meant by updating the tables. I just meant that the user is filling in the data that the form is designed to collect.

When typing in some of the table fields, the word document appears to rewrite itself on the monitor in a similar way as a web browswer when you click the refresh button. To put it another way, the document will blink, and after the blink the new character will be there. If I was to delete a word for example, I would type the backspace key 6 times and the screen will blink 6 times, removing one character after each blink.

About code, I don't have that expertise, but my concern there is that word does a lot of stuff in the background.

The printer is a network printer at my work that everyone uses successfully, including myself, with the exception of this one document.

Andre
 
OK, then let us assume that the printer driver is not the issue. It could still be, but it is not likely. Oh boy. I take it you are not personally responsible for the creation of this beastie.

I have a feeling there is an Update instruction in there. I also suspect there are Calculation on Exit checks in some of the formfields. Of these two suspicions, the first is most likely a general Sub run as each formfield OnExit macro. So yes, it would do a refresh and update for every field.

That being said, that it is acting at the character level is NOT normal behaviour for field updates.

Is it at all possible that some of these are ActiveX textboxes? The reason I ask, is that ActiveX have both an Update and Change event - formfields do not. Change would fire every time there is a change, including character by character.

Go View > Toolbars > Control Toolbar. Do any of the boxes have resizing handles on them?

Gerry
 
Well, this document is the result of many updates and revisions to accommodate the needs of various counties in Ca. and team players. The idea is to make it as customizable as possible and keep it streamlined.

I checked out your suggestions and none of the form fields are checked to update. I am the actually creator of this document so unless anything can happen behind the scenes, all of those properties should be at their default. I don't think any of them are active X either. I just used checkboxes from the forms toolbar.

My gut feeling about this is that there is probably some consequence for maintaining a document that has been changed and updated over a long period of time (over a year). That, along with the complexity of the layout.

Me and a co-worker have recreated the document in Excel which seems to be a solution except the tabbing in Excel in an issue. (
 
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