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?

This helped absolutely. Saving that took 10 to 20 seconds now happens in less than 2.

For comparison, saving my 1200-page document (which has thousands of endnotes, hundreds of cross-refs, six indexes, 100 partial TOC's, etc.) takes about 45 seconds. It's been getting slower gradually. Word 2013 must do lots of processing during the save because just copying the completed file to storage is much faster, so it's more than pure write time.

File - Options - Save - Save files in this format: After changing from DOCX to DOC, my bigger files save very quickly so make sure you check this, too.

i am facing the same problem.anyways,making the saving as to another name, sometimes the problem vanishes.but sometimes not.can't get the problem right

Why simple operation like Paste should take this much of time? I have set "Keep Text Only" for external program content. This is unacceptable for such product which I have used since version '95

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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2015-03-31T14:16:56+00:00

This helped absolutely. Saving that took 10 to 20 seconds now happens in less than 2.
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2015-04-01T17:49:53+00:00

For comparison, saving my 1200-page document (which has thousands of endnotes, hundreds of cross-refs, six indexes, 100 partial TOC's, etc.) takes about 45 seconds. It's been getting slower gradually. Word 2013 must do lots of processing during the save because just copying the completed file to storage is much faster, so it's more than pure write time.
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2015-04-29T06:18:07+00:00

File - Options - Save - Save files in this format:

After changing from DOCX to DOC, my bigger files save very quickly so make sure you check this, too.
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2015-05-18T13:37:38+00:00

i am facing the same problem.anyways,making the saving as to another name, sometimes the problem vanishes.but sometimes not.can't get the problem right
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2015-05-18T19:40:10+00:00

Why simple operation like Paste should take this much of time?

I have set "Keep Text Only" for external program content.

This is unacceptable for such product which I have used since version '95
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