How to make Word more lean?

One of the reasons I've not used Word more is its kind of slow compared to Wordpad. We can speed up the OS dramatically be trimming
off stuff running in the background through Services, Msconfig, etc in the Operating System. I was wondering if there are ways I
can make Word run faster? Perhaps by disabling auto correction, spellchecking, etc? Your recommendations would be most useful. I
only need a very few features in Word. And when I need something that might be disabled I can always enable it for the brief time
needed.

Not a lot that you can do. Disable spelling and grammar as you type, disable
all the AutoCorrect and AutoFormat options and make sure that you have the
latest printer and graphics drivers installed.

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Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"Will" wrote in message
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One of the reasons I've not used Word more is its kind of slow compared to
Wordpad. We can speed up the OS dramatically be trimming off stuff
running in the background through Services, Msconfig, etc in the Operating
System. I was wondering if there are ways I can make Word run faster?
Perhaps by disabling auto correction, spellchecking, etc? Your
recommendations would be most useful. I only need a very few features in
Word. And when I need something that might be disabled I can always
enable it for the brief time needed.

In addition, if you work in Normal view (called Draft view in Word 2007) you
can go into the options and turn off background repagination. When you
switch to Print Layout view, repagination is automatically turned back on,
and the option is grayed out while you're in that view.

If you use Word 2007, read
http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_offi...-edition1.aspx.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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Terry Farrell wrote:
Not a lot that you can do. Disable spelling and grammar as you type,
disable all the AutoCorrect and AutoFormat options and make sure that
you have the latest printer and graphics drivers installed.


"Will" wrote in message
...
One of the reasons I've not used Word more is its kind of slow
compared to Wordpad. We can speed up the OS dramatically be
trimming off stuff running in the background through Services,
Msconfig, etc in the Operating System. I was wondering if there are
ways I can make Word run faster? Perhaps by disabling auto
correction, spellchecking, etc? Your recommendations would be most
useful. I only need a very few features in Word. And when I need
something that might be disabled I can always enable it for the
brief time needed.

Thanks you two - excellent suggestions. Hopefully this will make a significant difference as my computer is not cutting edge.

In addition, if you work in Normal view (called Draft view in Word 2007) you
can go into the options and turn off background repagination. When you
switch to Print Layout view, repagination is automatically turned back on,
and the option is grayed out while you're in that view.
If you use Word 2007, read
http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_offi...-edition1.aspx.

Not a lot that you can do. Disable spelling and grammar as you type,
disable all the AutoCorrect and AutoFormat options and make sure that
you have the latest printer and graphics drivers installed.

One of the reasons I've not used Word more is its kind of slow
compared to Wordpad. We can speed up the OS dramatically be
trimming off stuff running in the background through Services,
Msconfig, etc in the Operating System. I was wondering if there are
ways I can make Word run faster? Perhaps by disabling auto
correction, spellchecking, etc? Your recommendations would be most
useful. I only need a very few features in Word. And when I need
something that might be disabled I can always enable it for the
brief time needed.