Bizarre Behavior

[Rebecca]

Greetings. I recently OCR-ed a large amount of material
and dumped the scanned material into an MS WORD (OFFICE
XP) file. I am currently going through the file (about 5
megabytes), making corrections (my OCR program indicated
possible errors by a yellow highlighting). For some
reason the editing is extremely difficult because as I
move the cursor around to make corrections, the page
temporarily freezes (similar to a "not responding"
message). After about 10 seconds the cursor can be moved
again. What in the world is causing this bizarre
behavior? I have racked my brain trying to find out what
the problem is.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

A 5 Mb document of just text is huge. Chances are your OCR program either
applied direct formatting or applied thousands of single-instance styles to
format your text. This makes for an incredibly complex document with a
likelihood of corruption. I would start by chopping the document up into
100-page segments. Then create a new document and paste the text from those
segments in using Paste Special => Unformatted text. Apply styles to that
text to format it the way you want. Continue pasting from each segment and
reformatting as you go.

http://addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm

 

[dave]

You might also want to try saving the document as a text
document which will strip all the formatting and probably
substantially reduce the size of the file (and hence,
speed up usage).