Word V.x - Constant disk access

[mac.spd]

Hi,

This is driving me nuts!!!!!!

I have a laptop which I am currently using on battery quite a bit at
the moment and the MS Word is draining the battery quicker than a short
circuit.

When I a open a document to work on Word seems to think that it
constantly has to read data from the HD, (at 1.4MB/s I might add), the
whole time that the app is open.

Why does it do this??

Is there a way to ease this bug?

It also seems to want to hog 1/3rd of the CPU time even while the
program is hidden in the background doing SFA.

Any help appreciated

Mac

 

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

Hi Mac:

A default Word installation opening a normal document will access the HD
only when AutoSave fires. If your AutoSave is set to the default ten
minutes, that's once every ten minutes.

If you haven't changed the document, it won't access the disk at all: I have
documents left open overnight: no disk access.

So it's not "Word" that's accessing the disk. It may be an add-in.

The CPU reading is highly misleading. It says that Word "is being offered"
30 per cent of the CPU time. It does NOT say that Word is "using" 30 per
cent of the time To prove this, start a whole lot more applications.
Word will then be offered proportionately less of the CPU time

Cheers

Hi,

This is driving me nuts!!!!!!

I have a laptop which I am currently using on battery quite a bit at
the moment and the MS Word is draining the battery quicker than a short
circuit.

When I a open a document to work on Word seems to think that it
constantly has to read data from the HD, (at 1.4MB/s I might add), the
whole time that the app is open.

Why does it do this??

Is there a way to ease this bug?

It also seems to want to hog 1/3rd of the CPU time even while the
program is hidden in the background doing SFA.

Any help appreciated

Mac

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