Macro execution slows down

[RWN]

of97/NT & of2k/w2kPro
Have an application that reads in a text file comprised of three fields
with a tag indicating the style to be applied.
Originally getting a "Formatting too Complex" message and, thanks to
Google as well as hints from prior posts determined that it's a problem
with re-defining a line's style more than once.
I re-defined my styles, setting the "Following style" to what is the
usual sequence of the text and only formatting on an exception basis.
This got me further into the file-which can run to 1,500 records with
two pieces of text on each record-but still got the message. I then
cleared the Undo stack after each record and finally "capitulated" and
did a save after each block of twenty records (arbitrary #).
It works but takes about 6 minutes to complete the task and gets slower
and slower as it goes.
The above is on my home machine (2k) and I know that it will take an
eternity at work ('97), plus the fact that there is a difference in when
I have to do the save between the two machines.
I can accept, grudgingly(?) what *I* consider to be a bug in Word
regarding the "Formatting..." error but is this behaviour (slowing down)
a function of the machine or is there something I can do to speed it up?

 

[DA]

Hi Rob,

You say that you're already clearing the undo buffer, but
I'd also include a "DoEvents" into your routine.

Also have a read of the following, which will help with
speed:

http://www.word.mvps.org/faqs/interdev/MakeAppInvisible.ht
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All the best,
Dennis