I am using the latest Word 2013 RC in German. Allthough I am very pleased with the overall performance and features of this new version, I ran into some very annoying problems, that didn't exist with the latest Word 2010. These should be easy to reproduce: Take a long document (*.docx) with at least 100 pages and try to save it. This takes forever - I can see the progress bar filling up slowly. It takes at least 10-20 seconds to save. During that process I cannot do anything within Word - not even scroll smoothly. It slows down to the point of almost freezing up. I didn't have this problem with Word 2010 on the same system. Take that same document (>100 pages) and try to copy&paste some text (for example out of Firefox) and paste it as plain text - this takes at least 1 to 2 seconds. I didn't have any kind of delay with Word 2010. Word 2013 seems to work ok with *.doc files - it's still slower than Word 2010 a lot faster than saving *.docx files. I have no problems whatsoever with short documents. Can anyone confirm these problems with Word 2013 RC?

I don't disagree with the workaround, only with Steve_SSW's comment... I'll see if I can find out anything on the status of this problem.

Would anyone who has experienced the problem with slow saving in Word 2013 be willing to share an example document with the Office Product Group? Remove any sensitive information, upload the file to SkyDrive and post a link here. Thanks.

All it takes is any long document, with or without complex formatting, and Background Saving turned on. The file format doesn't matter, I suggest you try the newest Word 2013 format. Maybe 20% of the time, it will be fast, 80% of the time, it will be slow.

All it takes is any long document, with or without complex formatting, and Background Saving turned on. The file format doesn't matter, I suggest you try the newest Word 2013 format. Maybe 20% of the time, it will be fast, 80% of the time, it will be slow. Yes, this is true in my experience too. I have had this problem with all (longer) documents. It seems not to be related to document content.

Would anyone who has experienced the problem with slow saving in Word 2013 be willing to share an example document with the Office Product Group? Remove any sensitive information, upload the file to SkyDrive and post a link here. Thanks. Hi Stefan, I hope you are able to reproduce the problem using the instructions. I'd rather not upload any files because I don't know what other information they carry in them. Is the problem currently being investigated by the Office Product Group? Thank you.

Word 2013: Extremely slow saving and pasting plain text in long documents

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I am using the latest Word 2013 RC in German. Allthough I am very pleased with the overall performance and features of this new version, I ran into some very annoying problems, that didn't exist with the latest Word 2010. These should be easy to reproduce:

Take a long document (*.docx) with at least 100 pages and try to save it. This takes forever - I can see the progress bar filling up slowly. It takes at least 10-20 seconds to save. During that process I cannot do anything within Word - not even scroll smoothly. It slows down to the point of almost freezing up. I didn't have this problem with Word 2010 on the same system.
Take that same document (>100 pages) and try to copy&paste some text (for example out of Firefox) and paste it as plain text - this takes at least 1 to 2 seconds. I didn't have any kind of delay with Word 2010.
Word 2013 seems to work ok with *.doc files - it's still slower than Word 2010 a lot faster than saving *.docx files.

I have no problems whatsoever with short documents. Can anyone confirm these problems with Word 2013 RC?

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Stefan Blom 351.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2013-08-14T13:47:41+00:00

I don't disagree with the workaround, only with Steve_SSW's comment...

I'll see if I can find out anything on the status of this problem.
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Stefan Blom 351.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2013-08-15T08:02:11+00:00

Would anyone who has experienced the problem with slow saving in Word 2013 be willing to share an example document with the Office Product Group? Remove any sensitive information, upload the file to SkyDrive and post a link here. Thanks.
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Anonymous

2013-08-15T17:04:07+00:00

All it takes is any long document, with or without complex formatting, and Background Saving turned on. The file format doesn't matter, I suggest you try the newest Word 2013 format. Maybe 20% of the time, it will be fast, 80% of the time, it will be slow.
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2013-08-16T08:19:57+00:00

All it takes is any long document, with or without complex formatting, and Background Saving turned on. The file format doesn't matter, I suggest you try the newest Word 2013 format. Maybe 20% of the time, it will be fast, 80% of the time, it will be slow.

Yes, this is true in my experience too. I have had this problem with all (longer) documents. It seems not to be related to document content.
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2013-08-19T14:50:17+00:00

Would anyone who has experienced the problem with slow saving in Word 2013 be willing to share an example document with the Office Product Group? Remove any sensitive information, upload the file to SkyDrive and post a link here. Thanks.

Hi Stefan,

I hope you are able to reproduce the problem using the instructions. I'd rather not upload any files because I don't know what other information they carry in them. Is the problem currently being investigated by the Office Product Group?

Thank you.
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