Background Repagination

[CarolsXJ900]

I am working in Word 2003 and have unchecked the
Tools/Options/General/Background Repagination in both normal and outline
view. When I view in Page Layout (which is where I am required to work) it is
still repaginating, slowing everything down. As I am preparing a template,
this won't work. When I go to Tools/Options/General/ the Background
Repagination is greyed out, but still has a tick visible. How can I turn it
off?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Carol,

Print/page layout view is a live representation of how the formatted document looks. Repagination in that view can't be turned off.

How big of a document is this? Do you have
Tools=>Options=>Spelling & Grammar
set to check spelling & grammar as you type?

Are you running any add-ins in Word?

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I am working in Word 2003 and have unchecked the
Tools/Options/General/Background Repagination in both normal and outline
view. When I view in Page Layout (which is where I am required to work) it is
still repaginating, slowing everything down. As I am preparing a template,
this won't work. When I go to Tools/Options/General/ the Background
Repagination is greyed out, but still has a tick visible. How can I turn it
off?
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Carol >>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[CarolsXJ900]

It is only an 11 page document, and the original document (which I have
reformatted to create my template) did not have this problem - it only
started today. I do have spelling & grammar set to check as I type - these
settings are as they were in the original word document, which still works
fine.

 

[grammatim]

Why "required" to use Print View? If you work in Normal View it
doesn't happen, and you can easily enough switch back when you need to
see what you've done.

 

[CarolsXJ900]

Get your point, however the document I am working on I need to fit tables to
page and headers and footers etc. It is normally where I work, and haven't
had this problem.

 

[grammatim]

The page breaks are shown in Normal View. They don't change once the
headers & footers are set.

 

[CarolsXJ900]

I have isolated the problem to the headers where I have inserted fields
linking to Custom Document Properties. When I delete the header, the document
scrolls without visible repagination. When I reinsert the header, the
document takes forever to "repaginate" on scroll. If I paste the header into
the actual document on a number of pages, it scrolls OK. Any suggestions,
please!!!!

 

[grammatim]

Leave the headers the way they're supposed to be (you can't actually
delete a header from a document once you've inserted it), but don't
put the field(s) in until the last moment?

 

[CarolsXJ900]

As I'm creating a template and the fields are needed to link to the document
properties so that all that needs to be done is update the document
properties and all fields in the headers are updated, I cannot leave
inserting the fields until the last moment.
Thanks for your input.