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Word 2003 using 100% of CPU cycles

Sep 26, 2005 6:30AM PDT

I have a dell optiplex 620 with 1.80 ghz processor and 2 gig of memory. I am working on a 200+ page word document. I have been monitoring my performace in the windows task manager and see that I am using 100% of my cycles. I have also heard that Word has issues with long document. Does any know why my cpu utilizaiton should be so high or if there is any information about Word and large documents?

sckg

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Repagination.
Sep 26, 2005 6:51AM PDT

For instance Word continuously repaginates to give a WYSIWYG display. While it seems a nice idea, the downside is that as you hit a few hundred pages it does soak the CPU.

Here's another issue. After I backup my work I find that STILL!!! I need to delete NORMAL.DOT from time to time (weekly) to keep that file from bloating and causing issues. It's been a decade since Word 95 rolled out with that issue. No one seems to know how long that bug will live on.

Bob

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Deleting normal.dot
Sep 26, 2005 8:08AM PDT

You can set MS Word to ask permission to change normal.dot, and that should give you enough control on it to NEVER have to delete normal.dot, because it never changes. Some settings (like the default font) are nice enough to keep and not enter each week, I think. Why not do this?
Or even, if you know you won't change it, make it read-only. Both options should give a certain protection to macroviruses also.


Kees

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Actually I do have a cure.
Sep 26, 2005 8:13AM PDT

While I still have a machine with Office, the rest have Open Office which is the cure for me.

Bob