Very annoying and sluggish behavior of Word!

[mkrzych]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Hello,
I am using Macbook with 2GB of RAM and 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo processor. I have created a table in the Excel and applied some auto filters on top of the table. Now I have Word .doc file when I copied that table part by part in each section using auto filter function in Excel program. What I have observed:

1. My document has 20 pages with only tables copied from the Excel file as I described above and it has over 20MB in size!????? That's a huge chunk of data. I don't have any pictures or media inside?!

2. Word is very, very sluggish and sometimes unresponsive. When I started typing little bit faster, my sentence appear on the screen letter by letter.

3. Selecting table using the small cross at the top left corner almost always causing application not responding message and a crash finally. I have to use menu to select the table and make some modifications, it is a bug IMHO?

4. My overall experience in this case is very bad, because I have to slow down my work and have a lot of patience.

Anybody has some suggestions and fillings about these issues? I have a log from Word crash, but it's long, so I don't want to post it here.

 

[mkrzych]

Additionally the same document saved also in .doc format but using Neo Office has around 9MB, and to top if off, the same document saved in .odt format has around 340KB?! What is going on?

 

[Krzysztof M.]

So nobody want to say something about it? For me it smells like a crap?

 

[John McGhie]

Well, if you persist in making smells like that, you should forgive folks
for avoiding your post by a wide margin

If you copy and paste a table from Excel, unless you explicitly use Paste
Special to paste it as a picture, you embed the entire spreadsheet into the
document so that it will continue to update dynamically, hence the 20 MB.

So it's not a problem with Word, it's something you did! If you want the
table to look and work as it did in Excel, then you have to include the
spreadsheet in the file. If you do not need the dynamic updating, it is up
to you to tell Word that: it will then bring in only the picture of the
Excel result.

If you downgrade the format to .doc, you will remove unsupported data, such
as the Excel table, leaving only a picture of it.

If you save that to .odt you would expect the file to shrink further,
because .odt can't describe some of the objects in a Word file, so it leaves
them out.

If you had saved in .docx format, you would expect the file to be even
smaller, because .docx is much more disk-space efficient than either .odt or
..doc. And you don't lose any data!

Cheers

So nobody want to say something about it? For me it smells like a crap?

--

Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia. mailto:[email protected]