Here's a strange one: Document causes WORD to run 100% of CPU!

[Sunsetlover]

Hello,
This problem developed 2-3 days ago. I use this document every day to save
Chinese and English translations from a web site. This document is about 14
pages, 100KB, with no special format, stylesheet, graphics, macro
whatsoever, just plain text in English and Chinese characters (SimSun font).

Two days ago I noticed WORD was running at 97% of CPU. EVERY TIME I open
this document it happens. It ONLY DOES IT WITH THIS PARTICULAR DOCUMENT. When
the document is open WORD runs at 9-10MB.

I checked and removed a few hyperlinks that it had, same problem. I
moved/saved the text into another file, same problem. I checked it for
viruses, nothing.

There is something corrupted in this document and I can't see what it is!
Please help with any suggestions, as I use this document every day!

Thank you!

XP SP2

 

[Sunsetlover]

Hi,
Thanks, but I have Word '97(!) and I don't see XML as an option.

I did save it as HTML doc and then opened it with Word and saved as doc,
which seems to have removed the corruption, however, my spacing is gone, some
special characters are missing, and worst of all I cannot increase the font
size, so for all practical purposes this format is unusable.

Any other "save as" I should try?

Thank you!

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Sunsetlover,

Word 97 used a somewhat limited HTML add-in. Word 2000 and higher use a more complete HTML file save version that retains the Word
content and formatting. For Word 97 you can try either of these

- save as Rich Text Format

- Use the Show/Hide toolbar icon to show the formatting marks and then copy all of the document except for the final paragraph
mark, then paste all of that into a new document.

Be sure to turn off, permanently, 'allow fast saves' in Tools=>Options=>Save.

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Hi,
Thanks, but I have Word '97(!) and I don't see XML as an option.

I did save it as HTML doc and then opened it with Word and saved as doc,
which seems to have removed the corruption, however, my spacing is gone, some
special characters are missing, and worst of all I cannot increase the font
size, so for all practical purposes this format is unusable.

Any other "save as" I should try?

Thank you! >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Sunsetlover]

Thank you!

Rich Text Format seems to have done it!

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi SunsetLover,

What happens when you then resave as a Word 97 Document (.doc) file to a new file name? If the RTF save worked to clear corruption
that next step would help to show it.

Working in RTF format full time would generally create really big files

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Thank you!

Rich Text Format seems to have done it! <<
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Sunsetlover]

Hello,

It started doing it again even in RTF. Then I thought that maybe I should
run "Spellcheck" since I had 15 pages of unintelligible characters in this
document. That did it! It took me lots of clicks but that's what was causing
it!

Ever seen anything like this before?!

Thank you all so much!

 

[Terry Farrell]

There's nothing strange about this. If you are not using styles correctly,
then all the characters foreign to the default proofing language will cause
an overload on the Spelling as You Type.

What you should be doing is to have a set of styles for the English input
with the proofing options set for English and another set of styles for the
Chinese with the proofing either set to Chinese or (if you don't have
Chinese proofing tools available) set to no proofing.