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Subject:Re: Any Word on Word? From:Lorin Ledger <LLedger -at- NEWHORIZON -dot- CA> Date:Mon, 19 Oct 1998 08:29:07 -0700
It shouldn't even slow down for such a small (150 pages) document.
FrameMaker doesn't, and I can't imagine PageMaker does.
Lorin
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Heather Ross [SMTP:Heather -dot- Louise -dot- Ross -at- THEMUTUALGROUP -dot- COM]
> Sent: Friday, October 16, 1998 7:00 AM
> Subject: Any Word on Word?
>
> Al Brown wrote:
> ---------------------------snip
> Our manuals are about 50-100 pages and up, with a
> substantial number of graphics.
> I'd be interested in hearing from anyone with experiences to
> share--positive
> or negative.
> --------------snip
>
> I'm currently working on a manual that's 150+ pages long, with lots of
> screen shots in it. The screen shots are linked to the file and not
> saved
> with it. Even though I'm working with Word 97 on a Pentium II machine
> running NT 4.0, I'm finding that Word can no longer keep up with my
> typing
> (i.e. when I'm finished typing a word it still hasn't appeared on the
> screen) and anything else I do takes longer than usual. When that file
> is
> opened, other applications on my computer seem to run more slowly as
> well.
> Right now, though, Word is the only program I have to produce this
> type of
> document in, and other than the slowdowns it works fine. - Heather