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Subject:Re: Word retardation! Help! From:Jim Jones <han4yu3 -at- gmail -dot- com> To:salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com Date:Thu, 10 Apr 2014 10:56:49 -0500
Don't know really what you should about what has already occurred or how
you could fix it but I can hazard a guess about your choice of combining
Word with Publisher.
Word is a well-known and oft-used commercial tool, Publisher -- I don't
think so.
That being said, Publisher used to use tremendous amounts of computer
memory to do what it does, and I do not know that stuff coming from it is
in a commonly-used format.
Jim Jones
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>wrote:
> I have an 85pp DOCX file in a 32-bit version of Word 2013 running on a Win7
> Enterprise box. I have 3GB RAM, it's an Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 -at- 2 -dot- 40 GHz,
> and there is 247GB freespace on C:.
>
> There are not a bunch of graphics in the file and I'm editing it on my
> local drive (not across the network). There are not a bunch of orphaned
> temporary files in the working folder, nor anywhere else on the local
> drive.
>
> The current problem is that Word has become v....e.....r.....y
> u....n.....r.....e....s.....p.....o....n.....s.....i....v.....e. As I'm
> attempted to paste in copied bits from Publisher 2013, Word is frequently
> showing a [Not Responding] message in its title and saving a recovery file
> prior to deciding, "Hey, it's OK" and letting me continue.
>
> This is really holding up my progress and my supervisor is starting to
> wonder what's wrong with me. The IT guy is of little help.
>
> What to do?
>
> Chris
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