Word 2016 typing is very slow

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I just installed Word 2016 version 16.0.4229.1029. I am experiencing very slow typing with a document whose format is as follows:

10,000+ words
91 pages
one long table: 2,000+ rows, 5 columns

I have turned off spell checker, corrector, etc as well as turned off all unnecessary Windows 10 Home animation. I even copied it to outside my OneDrive folder.

My computer is as follows:

ASUS laptop
Intel Core i7-4500U CPU @ 1.80GHz 2.40 GHz
8 GB RAM
64-bit operating system
x64-based processor

Prior to this installation, I was using Word 2013 and typing was fast with this doc.

[As I last resort: revert to Word 2013, but how?]

I have tested other documents and they seem to be fine.

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I am having the exact same problem here, and with regard to threads in several other forums, there are many users experiencing the same issues with Word 2016. @ZahirDhalla, could you solve the problem? Thanks for giving an update.

Hello Samuel [and previously Kay too],

I have 'solved' the problem but it requires some work. I figured it was to do with working in Word 2016 on a document that was created in Word 2013 or prior. So I created a brand new 2016 document and, in my case, fresh new tables in it, and then copied and pasted the text from the old pre-2016 version. It worked.

I hope you guys can do the same. Please let us know.

Zahir.

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2016-08-09T00:39:50+00:00

Hello Daniel, I'm sorry that you did not receive a response yet. Our engineering team looked at your document and found that the typing issues in your document were likely caused by the footnotes being formatted. While we don't have a fix scheduled for this right now, and typing performance issues tend to be varied and differ on a case-by-case basis, a possible workaround is to use Web Layout (click View < Web Layout), since that view doesn't show footnotes. Please give this a try and let us know if it helps.

Best,

-Erik, Office Newsroom
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Anonymous

2016-08-09T15:40:51+00:00

Thanks, Erik. I will also try using a large document with no footnotes and see what happens. I will not be surprise to find the same problem.

I truly hope your proposed solution is temporary, since not working with footnotes makes Word worse even than Pages for Mac. I migrated from Mac to Windows precisely to take advantage of the many more features of Office for Windows.

Best,

Daniel
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Anonymous

2016-08-21T01:20:10+00:00

I am having this issue with a document on my Dropbox folder. I posted my issue at http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office\_365hp-word/word-2016-unbearably-slow/b1b181ee-fc49-44f0-b534-1764b9b08a56. I am on Surface Pro 2 (8 GB RAM, 510 GB SSD). The document I am editing is 1.13 mb and 156 pages. I am running Windows 10 Anniversary Edition (Version 1607 for x64-based Systems), Office version 16.0.7070.2033. Can I still send the document via a private message to you?
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Anonymous

2016-09-07T12:01:39+00:00

I have a Surface 3 which is underpowered at the best of times, but typing in Word is pretty brutal when I work on a document that was started in Word 2013. This is even if the document is short, and I "convert" the document into the new format. I know it's Word, though, because I do not encounter the issue in any other programme even where there is a lot more RAM being used by the app. I'm trying with the "Insider" version of Office to see if that helps.

Looks like I'm going to need to change my hardware pretty soon if I hope to get any work done in Windows 10. :(
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