On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 10:56 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I experienced some extremely slow response time this morning while working > on a document that had many recorded changes. I was reviewing/revising a > procedure at work. It is relatively short, around 4 pages, with no graphic > elements. The file size is around 15K. > > Nearing the end of the document, it very suddenly started taking forever to > respond. My definition of "forever" in this case: To insert a line break by > pressing Enter took around 3 minutes. To save the document also took around 3 > minutes. I opened up, modified, and saved another document as a trial, and > that was fine. > > I closed out of OOo, shut down, and restarted, and the problem persisted. > > Finally, I tried saving the document as a different name (which again took > around 3 minutes), and in the new document, I went to Edit > Changes > Accept > or Reject, and Accepted All of the changes. Now the document gave normal > response time. So this was pretty clearly a result of the recorded changes. > > I estimate that I had approximately 80 recorded changes, which seems like a > lot I agree. (There were a number of places where someone had put a list in a > paragraph form (items separated by commas), and I changed those places to > bulletized lists, which caused a pretty large number of separate changes to > be recorded each time.) > > My question is whether this is to be expected (like is there a practical > limit to the number of changes that can be recorded?). > > I'm on OOo 2.0.2, Windows XP. It's a networked system rather than an > individual PC so unfortunately I'm not sure of the memory. > > Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks. >
1. If you can bump the memory settings in Tools > Options >
Openoffice.org. Do not know that this will help but I have had
to do this to work with the User Guide.
2. Try showing the changes. I have also found this helps with
response. Not showing slows things down.
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