A big problem - Scrolling after changing border lines

[Rainer]

Hi friends,
I have a big problem using WORD 2004 for MacOS X (10.3.5).
I wrote a 20 page document with 2 sections. Now I would like to change the
border lines (Menue->Format->Dokuments).
After this change, scrolling is extremly slow (perhaps 1 minute for 1 page!),
because WORD recalculates the pagination very scrolling line!
The error occurs on every Mac I used (PB, 2xQuicksilver) and also with WORD
v.X!

How can I fix this problem? Under Windows/Office XP everything is fine :-(

Thank you very much for your help,
Rainer

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

When you say border lines, do you mean borders (black lines around the
text), or do you mean margins (the amount of white space between the edge of
the page and where the text starts)? (At first I thought margins, but then
realized you can get to the borders dialog via Format | Document...)

Anyhow,

Scrolling/Repagination is probably one of the slowest things you can do in
Word. But I don't think it is *that* slow for everyone (minute per page
sounds excessive), so it is possible something is wrong with your setup or
your document.

Although if you do really mean borders, then Word has to draw that line,
which may slow it down even more. But minute per page still seems excessive.

If it's always the same doc, or if the pagination count goes very high (to
more pages than you have; check at very bottom of screen while it's
repaginating) that's a sign of a corrupt document.
http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/DocumentCorruption.htm
(hit refresh a few times in Safari, or use a different browser)

Also see the techniques listed here, which fix most of the common things
that go wrong with Word:
http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/TroubleshootingIndex.htm
(hit refresh a few times in Safari, or use a different browser)

Repagination should be faster with more RAM in the computer.

If you switch into Print Preview after changing the margins, that should get
all the repaginating over at once (maybe take a stretch break?), rather than
forcing you to wait at each page.

Instead of using Page Layout view, you could use Normal View, which is
faster mainly because it doesn't repaginate.

Using Google Groups advanced group search to search this newsgroup
(microsoft.public.mac.office.word) for subjects including "Word 2004" and
"slow" will yield some interesting discussions.

DM

 

[Rainer]

Hi Dayo,
thank you very much for helping me.
I meant margins in my original posting (I use the german version of WORD,
thus I do not know the correct englisch terms - sorry for the confusion!).
I fixed the problem. There was something wrong with the page numbers in
the headline! After deleting this (automatically generated) field, everything
was alright. Very strange thing. There are several ways to activate such
fields, but some are not very wiseful to use.

Thank you very much,
Rainer

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Hi Rainer,

Glad you solved it.

If you use Insert | Page Number by the menus, it places the page number in a
frame (gray box around it), so maybe that was the problem. Actually, yes,
b/c I think if you change the margins, the frame doesn't move. Or
something, that frame has been known to cause problems.

If you instead click View | Header & Footer, and then use the # icon to
insert the page number, it doesn't put it in a frame, which is usually
better.

There are several ways to activate such
fields, but some are not very wiseful to use.

But then again, I guess you didn't need me to give that info.

Dayo

PS. Headline--English term is "header" (footer at bottom). But no
apologies necessary, I mention it only in case the knowledge is useful to
you someday.