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

Anonymous
2013-01-16T14:12:48+00:00

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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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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  1. Anonymous
    2016-02-24T03:10:52+00:00

    I have the same issue with documents as small as 10 pages. They are formatted.  The issue just recently started in the last week. I have had Office / word 2013 for many months without issues, but now it is non-functional.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-02-25T01:34:06+00:00

    I am experiencing this also -- hugely frustrating (550 page document, takes about 45 seconds to complete a "save").

    I noticed one thing of possible interest: After starting the save, if I go to File->Info, in the Inspect Document section mid-way down the page it has an active spinner which says, "Searching for issues". To the left is a "Check for Issues" box which opens a page with a bunch of checkboxes, but unchecking them doesn't seem to have any noticeable effect (FYI, if you try this, try unchecking all except for one -- if you uncheck all of them your changes won't stick).

    Ick ICk ICK!

    Barry

    P.S. Word got so confused when I did the above (unchecking all but one box, then trying a save), that it got stuck "Searching for issues" and never returned. At it's prompting, I had to restart it -- when it came up, it opened "Document1" (rather than the document I had been working on). I closed that and reopened my original document and now the save time has been cut in half (about 20 seconds), though the checkboxes are all checked once again.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-03-04T08:29:26+00:00

    same trouble. Very frustrating. I though my files were flawed. I tried to cut in half, then in half. You see...

    I disabled the background saving. No real improvement.

    Today, I installed Office 2016 and guess what? No more lag. Editing and scrolling and saving is as fast as before.

    So I can say:  problem solved with Word 2016

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-03-31T23:49:57+00:00

    I endorse Easytherm's solution.  I gave up with Office 2013 and upgraded to Office 2016.  Word 2016 now behaves like Word 2010.  It repaginates faster ( possibly 64 bit program) and works like a dream.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-06-02T15:48:11+00:00

    Thanks Brother.

    I also had a problem like that. But now it has been fully recovered.

    Your this article made me free of tension.

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