Dan, are the documents which are sluggish, stored on another pc, a network drive, or any device which would be slower to access than a normal hard drive?
Word stores all of it's working temporary files on the same drive or device as the documents, and if this device is slow, Word can get pretty slow with large documents. There is an option for 2003 and later which makes Word make a local copy of the document on your C: drive, do the editing there, and copy it back when you're done; in the cases I mention, it can really speed up access. hope that's it, and not some mysterious slowdown for you. Chip -----Original Message----- From: dan greene [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 8:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: ms word and window-eyes sluggishness Morning All, Perhaps someone could assist me with a problem I've been having. When working in a large MS Word document, upwards of 150 pages, Window-eyes starts by reading just fine as I cursor around. However, as I move further into the document, the response of window-eyes gets progressively slower. Reading with the mouse keys is as fast as normal, but doing anything at all with the cursor and normal word navigation keys, takes literally seconds to complete. Interestingly, entering text is not effected at all, it's as fast as normal. I am currently using Window-Eyes 7 and this behavior occurs on all my XP machines, with versions of Word from 2000 through 2007. Any thoughts would be appreciated. One last thing, the documents that exhibit this behavior aren't overly loaded down with formatting, just standard stuff with tables, headings and field formats. Regards Dan Greene If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
