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
    2013-01-30T15:57:25+00:00

    I have the exact same problem. On a 200 page Word doc that would have saved instantly in Word 2010, it takes perhaps 30 seconds to save in Word 2013. I am using multiple section breaks, built-in styles, and a bibliography which I believe is EndNote-based (so I couldn't swear that the problem isn't EndNote, but the other users here have not reported this, so I doubt it).

    This is a huge problem. Is it going to be fixed? Because if not, I need to consider reverting to Office 2010.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-01-30T16:20:32+00:00

    It's definitely not an EndNote problem. I am not using a bibliography and am still facing the issue.

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  4. Stefan Blom 351.5K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2013-02-10T19:22:36+00:00

    But are you also running Office 2010 and 2013 side by side (which the other posters seem to be doing)?

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-02-11T10:48:01+00:00

    That is definitely not the issue. I am not running Office 2010 and 2013 side by side. Office 2010 was completely uninstalled and removed before I installed Office 2013 and ran into the above problems.

    In the meantime I also had the chance to test this behaviour on another system: Installed Office 2013 on a clean system and tested the files that I have had problems with on my system. The clean system showed the exact same issues: Slow saving and pasting into long documents (adding footnotes is also very slow).

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