How do I turn off repaqination in draft mode

[aethervox]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC

I have a long document that I'm working on in Draft mode and every time I drag and drop text I have to wait for it to repaginate. The preference button for background repagination doesn't seem to work, so is there any way to stop it from repaginating until I want it to?

 

[John McGhie]

No.

If you are in Draft mode, it will repaginate only when it needs to to lay
out the file. That's the effect of draft mode: to disable non-essential
pagination.

In Page Layout view, Word repaginations constantly.

In Draft View, Word will repaginate only when it needs to work out what to
show on the screen.

Cheers

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC

I have a long document that I'm working on in Draft mode and every time I drag
and drop text I have to wait for it to repaginate. The preference button for
background repagination doesn't seem to work, so is there any way to stop it
from repaginating until I want it to?

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[aethervox]

Well, that's annoying because it takes forever to repaginate.

I'm working with a document where I'm laying out text that was generated via OCR into tables. I have a table (one row only) formatted and set up in a second document and when I need it I paste it into the first document and drag the first bit of text into it. Then I have to wait while Word repaginates. The thing is it only repaginates the first time I drag and drop - if I add a row or three or four I can drag and drop into them without the repagination.

That's what's confusing me.

So why does Word need to repaginate for the first drag and drop of text after I paste the one-row table into the document, but not any subsequent drag and drops?

 

[John McGhie]

Because you are using "tables".

Particularly if you are using "floating" tables.

Get rid of the tables and repagination will be so quick you will probably
never notice it. Set up your layout using paragraph style properties so
that you do not need the tables. The speed improvement is dramatic.

Cheers

Well, that's annoying because it takes forever to repaginate.

I'm working with a document where I'm laying out text that was generated via
OCR into tables. I have a table (one row only) formatted and set up in a
second document and when I need it I paste it into the first document and drag
the first bit of text into it. Then I have to wait while Word repaginates. The
thing is it only repaginates the first time I drag and drop - if I add a row
or three or four I can drag and drop into them without the repagination.

That's what's confusing me.

So why does Word need to repaginate for the first drag and drop of text after
I paste the one-row table into the document, but not any subsequent drag and
drops?

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[aethervox]

Thanks for the reply.

In this case I do need tables, but I'll remember that for the future.

 

[John McGhie]

Then split the tables so that no row is larger than a page, and no table is
larger than ten pages.

This speeds things up a lot

Sorry: The Mac Word pagination engine does not have the performance they
are hoping for. Microsoft is working on it for the next version.

Currently, Office 2008 is rarely used for serious documentation, so most
people do not notice. I find that it works "ok" up to around 500 pages.
But if you need to use lotsa tables or graphics, or you are going above 500
pages in a file, you will indeed notice some panting and perspiration from
the poor little thing.

If you are regularly working on documents of this size and complexity, you
may like to grab the credit card and help yourself to a copy of Word 2003 or
Word 2007. Running in Windows XP in Parallels, you will notice that either
of them are dramatically quicker for heavy lifting. Word 2007 has some
serious mumbo!

Cheers

Thanks for the reply.

In this case I do need tables, but I'll remember that for the future.

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[aethervox]

That's what's so frustrating - no row is more than 8 lines of text and no table is longer than a page! It may be that 2008 doesn't like multiple tables per page.

Since I don't have a machine that's Intel based I'll drop down and insert the tables in Word 2004, then use 2008 to spell check, since 2004 doesn't refresh the suggestions box or buttons after a while.

Thanks for the help!