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Word Document Extremely Slow to Save

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DrGreg1408

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Feb 8, 2008
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I'm having a problem with a Word 2003 document. Whenever I save changes, it takes forever to complete the save. This is a document that has undergone many many edits. It currently has 61 pages, which is not enormous for a Word document. Does anyone know why it's taking so long to save? If it has to do with some kind of internal clutter, do you know of a way to clean that out? Thanks for any help you can provide.
 
Gerry,

No I don't. I also have UNchecked all of the following on the Options...Save tab:
Embed TrueType fonts
Embed linguistis data
Embed smart tags
Always create a backup
 
Gerry,

I figured it out. I had the "automatically save versions on close" option (File...Versions) checked to "yes." Some time ago, I had done that. Not a good idea. I had some 20+ versions saved. The document had reached the size of 529 MG! Once I unchecked that option and deleted all the versions, the document was only 1.45 MG. What a difference. Such an obvious solution, but I didn't see it.

Thanks for trying to help.
 
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