Fixing slow scrolling in Word 6


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Word 6.0 is very slow while scrolling (takes up to 30 seconds) when the document has more than 50 pages. After checking all the settings (cache, swapfile, 32-bit disk/file access, etc) it turns out that the simplest solution is to Select All contents of the document, Copy them, and then Paste them to a new document. Save the new document and work on it; the performance problem goes away. It seems that the Fast Save feature creates a very fragmented document file, which causes the performance problem.

Category: Digital Helpline, Word processing
Issue: Oct 1996
Pages: 184

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