Fast Save Word 2007

[Rosemary]

Hi

Could anyone advise me if Word 2007 has a Fast Save option and, if so, how I
can turn it off?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Fast Saves is disabled by default in Word 2007, and the option has been
removed from the UI.

 

[Guruveer]

Hi Rosemary,

Fast save option is not available in word 2007 as it is in word 2003.

Choose Options from the Tools menu and click the Save tab.
Uncheck the Allow Fast Saves option.
Click OK.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Why are you providing instructions for Word 2003 when Rosemary has made it
clear that she has Word 2007?

 

[Rosemary]

Hi Suzanne

Thanks for that information. I am dealing with a large document which has
become very slow to save, won't update the TOC fully (does page nos. only)
and in which the drop down list of cross references misses some of the tables
etc. I've been following your instructions on excessive file size which you
posted in response to a query from Shawn Fultz a while back, and Fast Save
was one possible (and easily addressed) cause.

 

[grammatim]

Wait, whether the ToC updates everything (discarding any special
formatting you may have done since the last generation) or just the
page numbers is a setting you can change. (Don't ask _me_ where to
find it. Suzanne will tell you.)

Were all your table titles done by Insert Caption or something
similar? (Is it consistent about the ones it fails to list in the XRef
panel?)

 

[Rosemary]

Hi

Thanks for your question - good point. I inherited the documents from 4
authors (all of whom used the same template) and have integrated them into
one document.

The caption entries mostly work just fine, but some are either:
(1) missing from the TOC (Table 5)
(2) missing from the drop down cross references list (Tables 2, 3 ,5 10,17).

Your suggestion made me wonder how they had put the captions in - perhaps
they had been done just as text using the Caption style in the template. So
I have just gone in and deleted all the old table captions and put in new
ones which I can track ( eg Table 1: new) but the problem persists for
exactly the same table captions.

There does not seem to any relationship between the source documents and the
problem captions - they occur with tables which originated in 3 of the 4
documents.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If this were an earlier version, I'd suspect that the captions were in text
boxes (which, in versions prior to 2007, are invisible to the TOC or
Cross-reference dialog), but that should not be an issue in 2007.

 

[Rosemary]

No sign of text boxes, but I have discovered that if I put a dummy Table 2
caption in the document before the real one, the real one updates and becomes
visible on the dropdown cross reference menu. However, it reverts to its
correct number and becomes invisible again once I delete the dummy table
heading.

Does that suggest any solution?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Not exactly, but here's something you might try. After you insert the dummy
caption and can see Table 2 in the cross-reference dialog, select the real
caption and go to the Insert | Bookmark dialog. Check the box for "Hidden
bookmarks" and select the radio button for "Location." The bookmark that is
highlighted (if any) will be the one for our caption. Click Add. If you
don't see a bookmark highlighted, try selecting both captions together, then
using Add to place the bookmark around both. Then select just ther "real"
caption and go back and Add again. Then delete the extra caption and see how
that works. My suspicion is that somehow the bookmark is being added
incorrectly when the List of Tables is being generated.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

No sign of text boxes, but I have discovered that if I put a dummy Table 2
caption in the document before the real one, the real one updates and
becomes
visible on the dropdown cross reference menu. However, it reverts to its
correct number and becomes invisible again once I delete the dummy table
heading.

Does that suggest any solution?

 

[Rosemary]

Hi Suzanne

Great - thanks for that idea. I willl try it now.

The weird thing about this is that the document functions fine in Word 2007
when I accept all the changes, and fine in Word 2003 regardless.

The other odd feature is that I cannot copy the caption from )e.g.) Table 1
over the bad one for Table 2 - just won't paste over the top.

 

[Rosemary]

Hi Suzanne

The bookmark was higlighted, but when I deleted the dummy bookmark the
dropdown menu reverted to its previous defective form.

Hmm.

Thanks for all your efforts on this one.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I don't think you'd previously mentioned that you had Track Changes enabled.
It is well known that many things in a document (especially anything
numbered) will not look right or work correctly until all changes have been
accepted/rejected.

 

[Rosemary]

Oh. Sorry I did not mention it earlier.

But I have been viewing the document with Track Changes switched off and in
Final mode - but the drop down menus still malfunction. Is there possibly a
way I can still enter the correct cross references in the document and then
see all the Tracked Changes when I subsequently open it?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I think you've gone beyond my expertise, especially given that this is Word
2007; perhaps someone else will have some ideas. But it seems to me
increasingly likely that the document may be damaged. There are instructions
for laundering documents in Word 2003 and earlier at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm; Word 2007's use of XML
may dictate a slightly different path, but these methods might still be
worth a try, beginning with Open and Repair.

 

[Rosemary]

Hi Suzanne

I'll give the document repair another shot. I found the article you mention
here in one of your earlier posts, and have worked through the options. None
did the trick, I'm afraid.

If I ever sort out the answer, I'll post it here for the next sufferer.

Many thanks for all your time and help.