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?

With Spelling and Grammar check off, my 40 page 30MB file with lots of images saved in less than 4 seconds. Over 45 seconds otherwise.

but it doesn't solved my problem! same as before. anyways thank u

Wait, you've assigned Microsoft's customers homework to fix problems with its software? This is almost always the solution proposed by any Microsoft-affiliated poster on these boards--it matters not the problem. This, imo, is precisely why people are switching to other productivity suites.

Yes! It's extremely annoying. Just the way NOT to treat paying customers. I'd like to ooint out that I, although I have a work-around, is still troubled by the bug. I have lost important work several times because I've been forced to turn the background saving off. Bad, Microsoft!

Hey, it seems MS has finally fixed the bug!!! I've used the new Office 2016 for a while and saving is quick - even after I removed the work-arounds. In fact, it seems like a recent update has improved performance even further. Has anyone read anything about this? Har MS actually acknowledged the existance of the bug, or just quietly fixed it?

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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2015-06-02T15:36:38+00:00

With Spelling and Grammar check off, my 40 page 30MB file with lots of images saved in less than 4 seconds. Over 45 seconds otherwise.
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2015-06-04T15:25:02+00:00

but it doesn't solved my problem! same as before. anyways thank u
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2015-08-07T05:52:06+00:00

Wait, you've assigned Microsoft's customers homework to fix problems with its software? This is almost always the solution proposed by any Microsoft-affiliated poster on these boards--it matters not the problem. This, imo, is precisely why people are switching to other productivity suites.
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2015-08-11T07:53:45+00:00

Yes! It's extremely annoying. Just the way NOT to treat paying customers.

I'd like to ooint out that I, although I have a work-around, is still troubled by the bug. I have lost important work several times because I've been forced to turn the background saving off.

Bad, Microsoft!
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2015-10-26T10:43:23+00:00

Hey, it seems MS has finally fixed the bug!!!

I've used the new Office 2016 for a while and saving is quick - even after I removed the work-arounds. In fact, it seems like a recent update has improved performance even further.

Has anyone read anything about this? Har MS actually acknowledged the existance of the bug, or just quietly fixed it?
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