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?

OMG. This WORKED! I've had this issue for years. My 500 page document, which I am still updating, generally takes 20-30 seconds to save. After making this change there is a pause for a second or two, then the documents saves in less than a couple of seconds -- total elapsed time is three seconds, four max. Hopefully, this will continue to work (times have varied in the past). I suspect it will -- this is a dramatic change. I wonder why auto-save was gumming things up so much? Probably a bug in scanning code somewhere.... THANK YOU! Barry

This looks useful but you have an error. You said: Using **Regedit,**go to this registry key address: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Excel\Security\FileValidation but the image provided indicates that should have been: Using **Regedit,**go to this registry key address: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Word\Security\FileValidation Thank you for the correction and I'm glad that you notice. Allow me to edit my post. Creating 15.0\Excel or Word key will actually do the same thing. We've indicated in the previous post that a few machines will not have ***\Office\15.0\Excel\Security\FileValidation**,* so we suggested to create/add it instead. In the screenshot, it was already added. This modification was found useful on our test since it gradually decreased the time required for large files to be saved. But cannot guarantee that this will work on every machine. we still need to consider the overall system performance. Now tell me - Will this solve the problem in Office 365 Word 16 if I change the version number from 15.0 to 16.0? Will this Excel registry key stop Excel expecting .xls files downloaded from my bank to be unblocked before use? Regarding this query, it was not yet tested for Office 365. Cheers,

This looks useful but you have an error. You said: Using **Regedit,**go to this registry key address: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Excel\Security\FileValidation but the image provided indicates that should have been: Using **Regedit,**go to this registry key address: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Word\Security\FileValidation Now tell me - Will this solve the problem in Office 365 Word 16 if I change the version number from 15.0 to 16.0? Will this Excel registry key stop Excel expecting .xls files downloaded from my bank to be unblocked before use?

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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2016-12-15T16:51:40+00:00

OMG. This WORKED! I've had this issue for years. My 500 page document, which I am still updating, generally takes 20-30 seconds to save. After making this change there is a pause for a second or two, then the documents saves in less than a couple of seconds -- total elapsed time is three seconds, four max. Hopefully, this will continue to work (times have varied in the past). I suspect it will -- this is a dramatic change.

I wonder why auto-save was gumming things up so much? Probably a bug in scanning code somewhere....

THANK YOU!

Barry
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2016-11-19T01:31:44+00:00

This looks useful but you have an error.

You said:

Using **Regedit,**go to this registry key address: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Excel\Security\FileValidation

but the image provided indicates that should have been:

Using **Regedit,**go to this registry key address: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Word\Security\FileValidation

Thank you for the correction and I'm glad that you notice. Allow me to edit my post. Creating 15.0\Excel or Word key will actually do the same thing.

We've indicated in the previous post that a few machines will not have***\Office\15.0\Excel\Security\FileValidation**,* so we suggested to create/add it instead. In the screenshot, it was already added. This modification was found useful on our test since it gradually decreased the time required for large files to be saved. But cannot guarantee that this will work on every machine. we still need to consider the overall system performance.

Now tell me - Will this solve the problem in Office 365 Word 16 if I change the version number from 15.0 to 16.0?

Will this Excel registry key stop Excel expecting .xls files downloaded from my bank to be unblocked before use?

Regarding this query, it was not yet tested for Office 365.

Cheers,
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2016-11-18T13:09:50+00:00

This looks useful but you have an error.

You said:

Using **Regedit,**go to this registry key address: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Excel\Security\FileValidation

but the image provided indicates that should have been:

Using **Regedit,**go to this registry key address: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Word\Security\FileValidation

Now tell me - Will this solve the problem in Office 365 Word 16 if I change the version number from 15.0 to 16.0?

Will this Excel registry key stop Excel expecting .xls files downloaded from my bank to be unblocked before use?
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