normal.dot takes 27mb memory...

[Swippe]

I have a problem with a normal.dot that takes 27mb RAM. It contains a lot of
code and it has both forms and a menu with templates (from a server). Should
it really take so much RAM and does anyone have any ideas how I can decrease
them memoryusage!?

 

[Doug Robbins]

Going to http://word.mvps.org/Downloads/index.htm and getting the code
cleaner might help, but it sounds like you have a lot of things in
Normal.Dot that should be somewhere else - either individual templates or in
a template that you save in the Word Startup folder so that it becomes an
Add-in with the code in it available to all documents.

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Swippe]

Thx for your advice, it might help a lot!!!!

//Swippe

"Doug Robbins" skrev:

 

[Helmut Weber]

Hi everybody,

by the way, if I open a Word97 dot (1 MB)
with WordXP and save it, the size is 300 KB afterwards.

Greetings from Bavaria, Germany

Helmut Weber, MVP
"red.sys" & chr(64) & "t-online.de"
Word XP, Win 98
http://word.mvps.org/

 

[Swippe]

Hello,
all helpfull folks ) I've tried the VBA Clean but it didn't make any
difference...then I've tried to remove all forms and just save as less code
as possible but after a while the template takes about 27 RAM...should it
really be like this!? Has anyone met the same problem?!

Thx

//Swippe

"Helmut Weber" skrev:

 

[Jay Freedman]

In addition to another link to the code cleaner, this article has some
useful suggestions: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/TemplateBloat.htm

 

[Swippe]

Thank you Jay, this was realy helpfull...this decreset memory use to 19 mb
and size from 392 kb to 161kb!!!!

B.R.

Swippe

"Jay Freedman" skrev:

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Following up on Doug Robbins' suggestions, you may want to look at
http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm for step-by-step instructions
on moving / sharing / copying / backing-up customizations including
AutoText, AutoCorrect, keyboard assignments, toolbars, macros, etc. This
shows how to create a custom global template to take some of the stuff out
of normal.dot.

Also, make sure that you have Fast Saves and Versions turned off.