Re: WORD issue

[Jonathan Kajeckas <jgkaje -at- wm -dot- edu>]

The styles problem does consume some memory; although the maximum number of 
styles per document or template is 10,000 
(http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q211/4/89.ASP) you could 
run into problems much sooner than that, and primarily for your own sanity 
you might need to sort them out or reapply styles that you create and store 
in a template. The overall problem with memory, however, is no doubt the 
graphics.
        To spare Word the task of redrawing the graphics as you scroll 
through the document, select Tools, Options, View, Picture Placeholders. 
This will show empty boxes where you have inserted graphics, and cut out a 
lot of processing. Where possible, I prefer not to paste images into Word, 
but instead to insert links to the images stored as external files. This 
minimizes the size of the Word file and allows me to edit the image outside 
of Word, e.g., a jpg in Photoshop, then tell Word to either update its 
image automatically or manually if I have changed the external image file. 
To insert a link in Word2000 rather than paste in an image, Insert, 
Picture->From File..., choose the file, then drop down the button labeled 
Insert and choose Link to File. This linking method for graphics is the 
same used by html, and may facilitate web authoring, since you would need 
external graphics files for the web version (if you do one). Incidentally, 
you can still crop and resize images in Word that you have inserted as 
links, but this does start to introduce processing overhead again; better 
to have the external graphic at the size you want.

Jonathan

At 04:13 PM 5/1/2001 -0400, you wrote: