Re: Word retardation! Help!

[Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>]

This is a given. For every Pub file I'm copying and pasting, I'm doing a *Save
as*, closing the DOCX, opening the new rev and repeating.

At this point I believe its the image on this PC, in that the system hangs
on doing a warm reboot and the Win7 Start Repair procedure runs forever
without ever fixing anything. I have to yank the power cord, wait a minute
for all capacitors to drain, plug it back in and do a hard reboot.

I've issued a trouble report with the IT guy, but we'll see........

> Chris


On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Al Geist <al -at- geistarts -dot- com> wrote:

> A great suggestion. I still tend to save versions after a couple of
> copy/paste cycles just in case a problem pops up. It's a lot easier to pick
> up with a good copy than it is to start over. My suggestion for the
> copy/paste came from playing with a Publisher I created. I usually do not
> use Publisher for any technical writing. It seemed to work, but Jodie's
> suggestion is actually better, especially if you are only inserting a page
> at a time. By using "Unformatted text" you don't clutter your styles with a
> bunch or garbage and it's a snap to apply styles.
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> I would agree that the slow-down is probably associated with copy/pasting
> from Publisher to Word.
>
> When I paste in text from other sources (applications, the Web, etc.), I
> always use Paste-->Unformatted Text, then use Word's format painter or
> Styles dropdown to format the text in Word.  I recommend using this method
> for any new cut/pasting.
>
>
>
> For the already-pasted text, the only thing I can think of is taking a few
> extra hours (which would pay for themselves later, if they resolve the
> problem) to highlight the suspect pasted text and click "Clear All" in the
> Styles dropdown, then reapply formatting using format painter (based on
> some
> un-suspect text) or the Styles.
>
>
>
> And, I assume you HAVE tried the usual "when in doubt, reboot." J
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>
> Good luck!
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