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Managing Long Documents
Is there anything I can do to make it easier to scroll within large
documents? I have a very large document that I am trying to edit in Word. By large, I mean 1077 pages. I've only just loaded the document into word but I'm finding it takes a very long time to scroll up and down with the document; I can click the up or down arrow on the slider and go away for 10 or 15 minutes only to find the hourglass still spinning when I come back; my document is still on its current page and hasn't moved in the desired direction at all. I've got 512 MB of memory and the computer is running an Athlon 1700 so it ought to have enough horsepower; I'm guessing that it is Word which is struggling in trying to move around within the document. What can I do to make this a much less painful task? I don't actually have too much editing to do but if I have to wait 15 minutes every time I try to scroll down a page it's going to take me until retirement to get this done. Is there anything in the Options that will help with this? Should I break the document down into smaller subdocuments and then link the chunks into the master document? If that is the right approach, what is a good size for the subdocuments? After all, if I make the subdocs too big, I may be no further ahead in terms of scrolling performance but if I make them very small, it increases the amount of work because I have to create all of these smaller documents. I still want to be able to see the whole document as one continuous "book" if at all possible. -- Rhino |
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Hi Rhino
Rhino wrote: Is there anything I can do to make it easier to scroll within large documents? I have a very large document that I am trying to edit in Word. By large, I mean 1077 pages. How large in terms of filesize? If this is practically text-only, you can use it. If you have a lot of graphics, long tables etc, expect a lot of [insert your favourite "toxic" here] breaks ... I've only just loaded the document into word but I'm finding it takes a very long time to scroll up and down with the document; I can click the up or down arrow on the slider and go away for 10 or 15 minutes only to find the hourglass still spinning when I come back; my document is still on its current page and hasn't moved in the desired direction at all. I've got 512 MB of memory and the computer is running an Athlon 1700 so it ought to have enough horsepower; I'm guessing that it is Word which is struggling in trying to move around within the document. I would not want to work with any long document with only 512 MByte of RAM these days. Processor speed is often not an issue (well, I have to work with a Pentium II notebook once a week this month, not too funny! ..-)) unless you have a lot of macrocode running which will profit from CPU power. I'd try to get at least 1 GByte. What can I do to make this a much less painful task? I don't actually have too much editing to do but if I have to wait 15 minutes every time I try to scroll down a page it's going to take me until retirement to get this done. Aside form the structure of the document: Work in normal and outline view. Almost exclusively. Is there anything in the Options that will help with this? Shut down most of the AutoFormatWhenYouDon'tLook stuff if you haven't already. I would not want to use spell/grammer-checker, too. Should I break the document down into smaller subdocuments and then link the chunks into the master document? If that is the right approach, what is a good size for the subdocuments? After all, if I make the subdocs too big, I may be no further ahead in terms of scrolling performance but if I make them very small, it increases the amount of work because I have to create all of these smaller documents. Don't go near master/subdocuments without an extensive study of the relevant "literature" (search for "Word heretic masterdocument" or such stuff). You could investigate into splitting into smaller fragments ("chapters" of a small 3-digit number of pages maybe) and build your own "master" with INCLUDETEXT fields. Or leave the last step and use RD fields for the compilation of TOCs, INDEX, etc. Good luck! Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Robert M. Franz (RMF) wrote in
Hi Rhino Rhino wrote: Is there anything I can do to make it easier to scroll within large documents? Just a note to add to RMF's post - have you tried navigating via the Document Map function? -- PeterMcC If you feel that any of the above is incorrect, inappropriate or offensive in any way, please ignore it and accept my apologies. |
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Can you explain this further. I have a file over 3000 pages and 300 MB in
size. Now I can cut it in chapters, that iswhat I do, but when I am finished I need to put the whole document together for the index and compile to pdf file. The problems start here. Bert. "PeterMcC" wrote in message ... Robert M. Franz (RMF) wrote in Hi Rhino Rhino wrote: Is there anything I can do to make it easier to scroll within large documents? Just a note to add to RMF's post - have you tried navigating via the Document Map function? -- PeterMcC If you feel that any of the above is incorrect, inappropriate or offensive in any way, please ignore it and accept my apologies. |
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Format your document using styles, including heading styles. Then go into
View Document Map -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Rhino" wrote in message ... Is there anything I can do to make it easier to scroll within large documents? I have a very large document that I am trying to edit in Word. By large, I mean 1077 pages. I've only just loaded the document into word but I'm finding it takes a very long time to scroll up and down with the document; I can click the up or down arrow on the slider and go away for 10 or 15 minutes only to find the hourglass still spinning when I come back; my document is still on its current page and hasn't moved in the desired direction at all. I've got 512 MB of memory and the computer is running an Athlon 1700 so it ought to have enough horsepower; I'm guessing that it is Word which is struggling in trying to move around within the document. What can I do to make this a much less painful task? I don't actually have too much editing to do but if I have to wait 15 minutes every time I try to scroll down a page it's going to take me until retirement to get this done. Is there anything in the Options that will help with this? Should I break the document down into smaller subdocuments and then link the chunks into the master document? If that is the right approach, what is a good size for the subdocuments? After all, if I make the subdocs too big, I may be no further ahead in terms of scrolling performance but if I make them very small, it increases the amount of work because I have to create all of these smaller documents. I still want to be able to see the whole document as one continuous "book" if at all possible. -- Rhino |
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"Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote in message ... Hi Rhino Rhino wrote: Is there anything I can do to make it easier to scroll within large documents? I have a very large document that I am trying to edit in Word. By large, I mean 1077 pages. How large in terms of filesize? If this is practically text-only, you can use it. If you have a lot of graphics, long tables etc, expect a lot of [insert your favourite "toxic" here] breaks ... The document is all text; not a single graphic or table in it. The document is roughly 2,600 KB in its original .txt format and balloons to 3,800 KB in Word _before_ I've done the reformatting that I plan. I've only just loaded the document into word but I'm finding it takes a very long time to scroll up and down with the document; I can click the up or down arrow on the slider and go away for 10 or 15 minutes only to find the hourglass still spinning when I come back; my document is still on its current page and hasn't moved in the desired direction at all. I've got 512 MB of memory and the computer is running an Athlon 1700 so it ought to have enough horsepower; I'm guessing that it is Word which is struggling in trying to move around within the document. I would not want to work with any long document with only 512 MByte of RAM these days. Processor speed is often not an issue (well, I have to work with a Pentium II notebook once a week this month, not too funny! .-)) unless you have a lot of macrocode running which will profit from CPU power. I'd try to get at least 1 GByte. Unfortunately, I need to do this with my existing equipment, end of story. What can I do to make this a much less painful task? I don't actually have too much editing to do but if I have to wait 15 minutes every time I try to scroll down a page it's going to take me until retirement to get this done. Aside form the structure of the document: Work in normal and outline view. Almost exclusively. Is there anything in the Options that will help with this? Shut down most of the AutoFormatWhenYouDon'tLook stuff if you haven't already. I would not want to use spell/grammer-checker, too. Could you be more specific on what I should shut down and where I can find those features to shut them down? I'm new to Word and am not fluent in finding my way around yet. Should I break the document down into smaller subdocuments and then link the chunks into the master document? If that is the right approach, what is a good size for the subdocuments? After all, if I make the subdocs too big, I may be no further ahead in terms of scrolling performance but if I make them very small, it increases the amount of work because I have to create all of these smaller documents. Don't go near master/subdocuments without an extensive study of the relevant "literature" (search for "Word heretic masterdocument" or such stuff). Fair enough; I've been warned :-) Sounds like one of those "religious arguments" with various schools of thought about what is the Right Way to do things.... You could investigate into splitting into smaller fragments ("chapters" of a small 3-digit number of pages maybe) and build your own "master" with INCLUDETEXT fields. Or leave the last step and use RD fields for the compilation of TOCs, INDEX, etc. So this is a way to get the effect of subdocuments without actually using subdocuments? I've never heard of INCLUDETEXT fields or RD fields before but I just found them in the Word Help so I now have a glimmer of an idea how to use them. I think I'm going to need to knock together a simple prototype so that I can experiment with the required techniques for building documents this way. Okay, thanks for the guidance. I'll look into this and come back here if I have any further questions. -- Rhino |
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Hi Rhino (and Bert, too, see especially the last link):
Some links that may help: Use the Browse Object to go to Next Section or Next Heading http://daiya.mvps.org/browseobject.htm Use the Document Map, but see these caveats: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/DocumentMap.htm Outline View [a good way to navigate, organize, restructrure] http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/UsingOLView.htm Creating a Table of Contents Spanning Multiple Documents [RD fields] http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/P...cle.asp?ID=148 See the łNumber Pages Across Files˛ section at this link: http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...r/MiscFram.htm IncludeText Fields can partially substitute for the Master Document feature‹for an introduction to them, see he http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFm...textfields.htm Word experts generally advise combining long documents into one file, if possible, and you will find more information on controlling those big files here--a great big compilation of links re long documents: http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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Rhino wrote:
Is there anything in the Options that will help with this? Shut down most of the AutoFormatWhenYouDon'tLook stuff if you haven't already. I would not want to use spell/grammer-checker, too. Could you be more specific on what I should shut down and where I can find those features to shut them down? I'm new to Word and am not fluent in finding my way around yet. One useful approach is to go into the options menu and shut off everything that you can possibly live without. Should I break the document down into smaller subdocuments and then link the chunks into the master document? If that is the right approach, what is a good size for the subdocuments? After all, if I make the subdocs too big, I may be no further ahead in terms of scrolling performance but if I make them very small, it increases the amount of work because I have to create all of these smaller documents. Don't go near master/subdocuments without an extensive study of the relevant "literature" (search for "Word heretic masterdocument" or such stuff). Fair enough; I've been warned :-) Sounds like one of those "religious arguments" with various schools of thought about what is the Right Way to do things.... Actually it's because the master document system is very fragile and quirky, and needs to be approached with great care if you don't want it to eat your work. If you think that it's just a 'school of thought' matter, feel free to try it out some time... |
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Bert wrote in
"PeterMcC" wrote in message ... Robert M. Franz (RMF) wrote in Hi Rhino Rhino wrote: Is there anything I can do to make it easier to scroll within large documents? Just a note to add to RMF's post - have you tried navigating via the Document Map function? Can you explain this further. I have a file over 3000 pages and 300 MB in size. Now I can cut it in chapters, that iswhat I do, but when I am finished I need to put the whole document together for the index and compile to pdf file. The problems start here. Sorry, Bert - my comment only helps with making it easier to navigate large documents. I'm a little surprised at the size of the file though - 100KB per page seems rather large. If that's caused by images, have you thought about leaving placeholders for them until the final version? -- PeterMcC If you feel that any of the above is incorrect, inappropriate or offensive in any way, please ignore it and accept my apologies. |
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"PeterMcC" wrote in message ... Robert M. Franz (RMF) wrote in Hi Rhino Rhino wrote: Is there anything I can do to make it easier to scroll within large documents? Just a note to add to RMF's post - have you tried navigating via the Document Map function? The document is 1077 pages of pure text. There are no separations between the "chapters" other than the text "Chapter 1: Foo", "Chapter 2: Bar", etc. Therefore, there is no Document Map. If I go to the effort of formatting the document properly, I assume that I will have a proper DocumentMap by the end of the process but that doesn't help me now. Or am I misunderstanding your point? -- Rhino |
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