Word repagination & cpu hog

[sayling]

I found a consistent way to make MS Word go into a repagination loop
and hog CPU.

MS Word:mac 11.3.0 (also happens on 11.2.6 and perhaps earlier)
Mac OS X 10.4.8 PPC (Mac G4 cube 1.25GB with 1.2GHz Sonnet cpu)

Document contains a table.
Table first row has 'heading rows repeat' set on.
A cell in this header row has multiple paragraph marks.
Track Changes is on
Deleted text is displayed as hidden

Delete a paragraph mark in the header row cell which has multiple
paragraph marks.
MS Word start to bump up the number of pages, consumes 70%-90% CPU.
Sometimes I have to Force Quit.
Other times I can click 'Track Changes' (toolbar or status bar at
bottom of document) in time to stop it.

Sayling Low

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi Sayling:

Thanks for the report, I have put that in to the developers for you.

Cheers

I found a consistent way to make MS Word go into a repagination loop
and hog CPU.

MS Word:mac 11.3.0 (also happens on 11.2.6 and perhaps earlier)
Mac OS X 10.4.8 PPC (Mac G4 cube 1.25GB with 1.2GHz Sonnet cpu)

Document contains a table.
Table first row has 'heading rows repeat' set on.
A cell in this header row has multiple paragraph marks.
Track Changes is on
Deleted text is displayed as hidden

Delete a paragraph mark in the header row cell which has multiple
paragraph marks.
MS Word start to bump up the number of pages, consumes 70%-90% CPU.
Sometimes I have to Force Quit.
Other times I can click 'Track Changes' (toolbar or status bar at
bottom of document) in time to stop it.

Sayling Low

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[sayling]

Oh! Thanks, John.

I didn't realise this would get to MS so quickly! I flagged it here
first to see if others had experienced the same problem, in case it
was something specific to my own setup, though I have had this happen
on my G4 cube and also my PBG4 15" 1.67GHz as well.

Sayling

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi Sayling:

We have all had the problem: but achieving an accurately-documented set of
reproduction steps is extremely valuable.

There are several problems that can cause the Pagination algorithm to hang
in a loop: now we know exactly what one of them is

Cheers

Oh! Thanks, John.

I didn't realise this would get to MS so quickly! I flagged it here
first to see if others had experienced the same problem, in case it
was something specific to my own setup, though I have had this happen
on my G4 cube and also my PBG4 15" 1.67GHz as well.

Sayling

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me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant
Technical Writer.
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410