Speed WORD?

[flirt]

WORD is very slow when you type while there is a figure in the range of the visible screen. It seems word trys to refresh every time after you type a word. Anybody know the tricks to speed up? I have a large file including many figures.
Thanks.

 

[fumei]

Are your figures embedded, or linked? Are they compressed. What view are you using?

Also, what version?

Gerry

 

[flirt]

The figures are embedded, not compressed (I'm considering that because the file becomes very large now). Normal view, version 2003. I put the figures in Tables, becasue only by this way the position of the figures can be controlled.
I'm surprised that the file is so large. There are only about 50 pages including 20 figures, but the file is about 50M. Maybe that is because some Orgin figures are included and word remember a lot of data. Maybe sub-documents are better for large files. But I have to cross-reference between different chapters. Do you know how to do this?
Thanks a lot.

 

[flirt]

sorry, it is in the print layout view.

 

[tf1]

I am sure that the problem is the size of the graphics, because 50MB is huge. The way I keep graphics under control is to edit them in another package and save them the final size and resolution needed in the document (and I usually use highest quality jpeg). If the document is only going to be viewed and not printed, then the quality can really be quite low before it is noticable (screen resolution is never more than 96dpi); even a tiny PNG is acceptable.

Once you have the graphics saved in the correct size and resolution for your document, use Insert, Picture from File to place them in the document.

I do this for any graphics, whether it is a digital photo, a graph from Excel or a complex network diagram created in Visio.

If you don't already have a suitable graphics editor, I highly recommend the free to download IrfanView which handles just about any graphics format and does everything you need for this task.

Regards: tf1