S
Stefan German
Hi all!
In our office we use MS Word 95 for communication with clients. Data
are delivered by custom application, which uses DDE to compose
documents and insert data into corresponding bookmarks. Whole process
was fine, however, because of non-technical reasons we have to switch
from MS Word 95 to MS Word 2000. Almost everything works fine with
W2000, except some incompatibility in document formating (we use CZ
version of Word). But, with MS Word 2000 we have serious performance
problems. We used to process 2000 documents with in 40 minutes, W95,
but only about one third of this amount after switching to W2000.
I tried to process test set of documents on different machine. I
found, that performance is machine (setup) specific. On another
machine (with lower specs - notebook) it worked just about the same
performance for both of Words. I tried to compare setting, but setting
is also not a case. Slower machine with the same setting is about the
same using W95, but is much faster with W2000. (On this machine,
performance of W95 is about the same as of W2000)
Slowest part of process (with w2000 on terimanl) is inserting values
into bookmarks. Word sometime freezes for few seconds. Sometime
between inserting of values formating of document changes. Strange...
Summary:
Terminal - P4 2.2GHz, 512 RAM, w2k server eng, word 95 CZ+ MS Office
2000 CZ - Word 95 fast, Word 2000 slow
Notebook PM 1.5GHz, 256 RAM, w2k prof eng, word 95 CZ+ MS Office 2000
CZ - Word 95 fast, Word 2000 fast
My "only" limitation is that I can not reinstall or use other
software/hardware. Anyway, I asked for reinstalling Office 2000, but
it did not help.
Thanks for any idea.
In our office we use MS Word 95 for communication with clients. Data
are delivered by custom application, which uses DDE to compose
documents and insert data into corresponding bookmarks. Whole process
was fine, however, because of non-technical reasons we have to switch
from MS Word 95 to MS Word 2000. Almost everything works fine with
W2000, except some incompatibility in document formating (we use CZ
version of Word). But, with MS Word 2000 we have serious performance
problems. We used to process 2000 documents with in 40 minutes, W95,
but only about one third of this amount after switching to W2000.
I tried to process test set of documents on different machine. I
found, that performance is machine (setup) specific. On another
machine (with lower specs - notebook) it worked just about the same
performance for both of Words. I tried to compare setting, but setting
is also not a case. Slower machine with the same setting is about the
same using W95, but is much faster with W2000. (On this machine,
performance of W95 is about the same as of W2000)
Slowest part of process (with w2000 on terimanl) is inserting values
into bookmarks. Word sometime freezes for few seconds. Sometime
between inserting of values formating of document changes. Strange...
Summary:
Terminal - P4 2.2GHz, 512 RAM, w2k server eng, word 95 CZ+ MS Office
2000 CZ - Word 95 fast, Word 2000 slow
Notebook PM 1.5GHz, 256 RAM, w2k prof eng, word 95 CZ+ MS Office 2000
CZ - Word 95 fast, Word 2000 fast
My "only" limitation is that I can not reinstall or use other
software/hardware. Anyway, I asked for reinstalling Office 2000, but
it did not help.
Thanks for any idea.