Auto numbers and stuff

[Stephanie]

Okay, I am about fed up with Word and its special features.

I am working on a document about 180 pages filled with auto numbers of
various styles (another headache question for another day). It's bad enough
the numbers get funky. When you modify a style and click 'automatically
update' you can't open the document on another computer without every auto
number going crazy. which is why i was hired to fix this document. but now
with that fixed, every time i put in a table, whether I copy/paste or make it
from scratch, the computer/Word bogs down incredibly, to the point Word says
"not responding." Well...duh.

Okay, perusing this website I learned about the caca with 'auto update'
(though I don't know what the purpose of that option is) but..

How do I stop Word from going goofy when I put anything other than plain
text in the document....like bold, table, a box with text in it. There
really aren't many of them in the document, I'm worked documents with many,
many more...and had the same issues then.

Can any one help me?

 

[Shauna Kelly]

Hi Stephanie

To help you out, we will probably need some information about what you're
experiencing that is more specific than "funky", "crazy" "caca" and "goofy".

Can you tell us what version of Word you're working with, and how the auto
numbers have been applied? And, when you mention 'automatically update' is
this automatically updating a single style (on the Modify Style dialog) or
automatically updating styles from their template (on the Templates and
Add-ins dialog).

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word