Word 2013 slow typing

Anonymous
2013-05-08T21:43:34+00:00

Hi Folks,

I am using Word 2013 that comes with my Office 365. I regularly paste photos into cells in a word document template that I use every day, and then write a description in a neighboring cell. It is saved in the most recent word format.

Just recently the display of the text when typing is veryyyyy slow showing up when typing after pasting the picture/s. I have used the Office 365 for 6 months or more before this issue cropped up. This issue has just started in last week or so. No hardware or driver issues on computer, and I have tried a system restore to a date prior to the problem with no results. I use Windows 7 Professional, service pack 1. Plenty of RAM, and a large 480 GB solid state hard drive for the C drive.

The weird thing is, if I save the document in the older format (word 97-2003) the program works fine, but that is not a good long term solution for numerous reasons. I have tried the disabling the hardware acceleration as suggested in other blogs, but that did not resolve the issue. I have also tried increasing the virtual memory, which did not help either. Getting ready to jump out a window, hope someone has a suggestion that works. Getting ready to go back to office 2010. Don't like the Outlook 2013 preview pane limited view of the body of the email issue, and this latest issue makes me crazy with all the time I have burned up on it...

Thanks in advance.

Tom

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-05-09T16:33:23+00:00

    Hi Nayana,

    Thanks for your response.

    It occurs with a document that has a group of cells in-bedded in same that I paste photos and text into.

    It is a template i have used for years with no difficulties,and have updated to the new versions along the way, but making a new template is quite a bit of work so I have not done that yet. I have tried using a backup copy of the file and that did not work right either so I presumed it was not a corrupted file.

    It does not help to run it in safe mode.

    The file is 99KB to start with. I paste 250-450kb pictures into a cell which automatically re-sizes the picture. I do it that way since there is no way to set the default size of pictures pasted into a document, and i need to fit 2 to a page and the resizing process takes quite a bit of time.

    The lagging starts as soon as i past (1) photo into document.

    I tried the automated fixit on the link and that did not work as well.

    Any thoughts..

    Regards,

    Tom

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-05-09T15:53:24+00:00

    Hello Tom,

    1. Does the issue occur with specific document or with all the Word 2013 documents?
    2. If it’s with specific document then what is the size of the file?

    If the issue occurs with specific file then recreate the file and verify the status.

    If the issue occurs with all the documents then open Word in application safe mode and verify the status.

    To open Word in application safe mode: Click Start > in ‘Search’ bar >type 'winword /safe' (Without the quotes and note the space in the command)

    If you’re able to work with Word in safe mode, then follow the steps provided in the article below and check if that helps:

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921541

    For further queries, reply and we are happy to assist.

    Thank you.

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