Typing Lag in Word

[R.C.Gregson]

I've got a handfull of users on Office 2000 and Office XP that work on
large-ish word documents and for some reason get insane key-stroke lag
when typing inside tables. The documents are anywhere from 20-70 pages
long and have images and tables embedded, but the overall file size
isn't too huge, only 10-20Mb. Also, not everyone has issues with the
same document, only certain machines.

The file is stored remotely on a server, but again as I said, not ever
PC has issues, only a certain few. I've looked into the network speed
and it doesnt appear to be relevant. Some users with issues are on
100Mb, some that are trouble free are on 10Mb. It seems a little
strange, I'm wondering if it's a bug in the Office installation that
could be fixed by applying service packs or reinstalling.

 

[Og]

I've got a handfull of users on Office 2000 and Office XP that work on
large-ish word documents and for some reason get insane key-stroke lag
when typing inside tables. The documents are anywhere from 20-70 pages
long and have images and tables embedded, but the overall file size
isn't too huge, only 10-20Mb. Also, not everyone has issues with the
same document, only certain machines.

The file is stored remotely on a server, but again as I said, not ever
PC has issues, only a certain few. I've looked into the network speed
and it doesnt appear to be relevant. Some users with issues are on
100Mb, some that are trouble free are on 10Mb. It seems a little
strange, I'm wondering if it's a bug in the Office installation that
could be fixed by applying service packs or reinstalling.

Your problem has nothing to do with network resources and everything to do
with local computer resources.
Add more RAM memory to the problem machines to preclude the need to
read/write to their hard drives which, as you have discovered, is
dramatically slower than read/write to RAM.
Steve