Word 2010 With Table of Contents "Freezes up". Size 166KB

[PWD]

Good afternoon, I have only recently come across this phenomenom whereby a Word document will stall if I open a document that contains a Table of Contents. Once it seems to have sorted itself out then it's fine. If, however, I go back into the ToC it hangs again. An ideas?

Many thanks,
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[macropod]

It's possible the document has acquired some for of corruption. Corrupt documents can often be 'repaired' by inserting a new, empty, paragraph at the very end, copying everything except that new paragraph to a new document based on the same template (headers & footers may need to be copied separately), closing the old document and saving the new one over it.

Cheers
Paul Edstein
[MS MVP - Word]

 

[PWD]

Hmmm, I thought that that might have done it after I updated the entire table but although that action returned the TOC background to mid/dark grey, as soon as I scrolled down and then back up to the TOC its background turned a very pale blue/grey and it really makes Word stop respoding - you can't even Alt + Tab back to it! Grrrr.

Many thanks,
D€$

 

[macropod]

Have you tried repairing the Office installation (via Start > Windows Control Panel > Programs > Programs & Features > Microsoft Office (version) > Change)?

Cheers
Paul Edstein
[MS MVP - Word]

 

[PWD]

Hi there, thanks for the suggestion. This is a work PC so that's not possible. I had tried saving to the PC, as opposed to over the network, but that hasn't really made a difference. I guess I'll just have to live with it.

Many thanks,
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[macropod]

Does your document have a Table of Contents that was created via Word's References>Table of Contents function? A Table of Contents inserted that way is placed inside a form of content control whose performance degrades markedly as the Table of Contents grows. With a large Table of Contents, you'll get dramatically better performance by creating one via Insert|Quick Parts|Field>TOC.

Cheers
Paul Edstein
[MS MVP - Word]