Continuous repagination on 500+ page document

[John Owens]

I have a 500+ page document. I must stop and wait for repagination almost
every time I do anything. ie. search for a bookmark, add a comment etc. The
repagination process takes about 1 minute, so each day I end up wasting about
2 hours of work just waiting for repagination to complete.

Is there a way to turn off repagination, besides working in normal view? I
must work in Print Layout view. Or could my document be corrupt? If so how
can I fix it?

BTW I have close to 300 comments added to this document, and Track Changes
is turned on, and almost every line in the document has changes to it. So,
maybe I have exceeded MS Word 2003's limits ???

Thanks in advance!
John

 

[Graham Mayor]

*Why* must you work in Print Layout view? Work in Normal view with
pagination switched off then revert to Print Layout to paginate when you
have finished the bulk of the editing. With this type of editing, it is
inevitable that the document will repaginate every time you make a change
and a long-ish document is going to take time to repaginate.

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[John Owens]

Thanks for your quick reply Graham!

Well I have thousands of edits and 300+ comments in this document, so if I
view using Normal View while displaying tracked changes it will be to
confusing as all the additions, deletions and modifications are shown in the
body of the document instead of off to the side like is done in Print view.

Even if I turn on display of tracked changes, which I can sometimes do,
quite often I will need to view the changes again. So, when I turn back on
display, then I have to wait 1-2 minutes for repagination to complete.

Anyway, it seems that my doc must have been corrupt because I took the
advice of one of the threads here and saved the file as an HTML and then
re-opened the file and saved it as a doc. Not it works fine.

Thanks anyway for your help.
Best regards, John