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owlfan12000
At my office we have a document that was created in Word 2000 to outline a
Modbus register map. Each register outlined in the document (20+ total) has
been built in a picture box. In those pictures are a few lines of text, a
table that is 17 cells wide and 5 rows, then more lines of text. Each picture
has text wrapping set to top and bottom at an absolute position on a page.
The problem is that it is nearly impossible to scroll through the document.
I'm told that it works fine on an old Windows '98 machine with Word 2000 on
it. When viewed using Windows XP and Office 2007 the scrolling process slows
to a crawl as each new picture scrolls across the screen. At times the "word
not responding" message appears but Word recovers if you wait long enough.
Is there any way to update this document to eliminate this problem? If so,
is there an easy way? I thought I would try replacing the picture box with a
text box by creating a text box and then copying the text from the old
picture to the new text box but the absolute position of the original text
boxes made it really difficult to get the new boxes into the right place. I
gave up quickly because I wasn't even sure if it would fix the problem.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated. We do have access to Microsoft
Publisher, Adobe Acrobat and perhaps other programs if it would help to save
this in some other format and then reopen it in Word.
Modbus register map. Each register outlined in the document (20+ total) has
been built in a picture box. In those pictures are a few lines of text, a
table that is 17 cells wide and 5 rows, then more lines of text. Each picture
has text wrapping set to top and bottom at an absolute position on a page.
The problem is that it is nearly impossible to scroll through the document.
I'm told that it works fine on an old Windows '98 machine with Word 2000 on
it. When viewed using Windows XP and Office 2007 the scrolling process slows
to a crawl as each new picture scrolls across the screen. At times the "word
not responding" message appears but Word recovers if you wait long enough.
Is there any way to update this document to eliminate this problem? If so,
is there an easy way? I thought I would try replacing the picture box with a
text box by creating a text box and then copying the text from the old
picture to the new text box but the absolute position of the original text
boxes made it really difficult to get the new boxes into the right place. I
gave up quickly because I wasn't even sure if it would fix the problem.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated. We do have access to Microsoft
Publisher, Adobe Acrobat and perhaps other programs if it would help to save
this in some other format and then reopen it in Word.