Re: Clearing the 'Undo' memory cache in Word to avoid sluggish beh

From: Dave (Dave_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/15/04 

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 06:05:06 -0700

Jay,

Thanks, your suggestion seems like it will be very helpful with respect to
the Find & Replace operations.

However, in general, with 1,000 + page documents in MS Word. The program is
still rather unresponsive (actually, slow as mollassas). Does anybody else
have any other tips to help speed things along. We do not have any graphics
nor embedded fonts or anything else unusual with the documents that I am
aware of. I can think of three areas to comment on:

1) Things I can do within Word itself (i.e. set certain options)

2) Things I can do within my operating system itself (i.e. set Windows XP
settings)

3) Things I can do to locate and fix the performance bottleneck with my
computer hardware itself. I.e. processor, ram, etc. (In my case I have a
new Dell 2.8 GHz with 500+ MB of RAM, so I am not sure what would help
further. I.e. a new machine with dual processor, a mainframe .... ? Since
this is a major headache for our business, getting the hardware right is an
option, except perhaps for the mainframe :)

Thanks everybody!

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
> It isn't possible to turn off Undo, but you can clear its cache.
>
> Somewhere in your processing loop -- say, just before or after each
> F&R -- include the statement
> ActiveDocument.UndoClear
>
> --
> Regards,
> Jay Freedman http://aspnet2.com/mvp.ashx?JayFreedman
> Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
>
> "Dave" <Dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >I have to work with approximately 1,000 page Word documents (talk about
> >pushing things to the limit). I often have to make numerous find&replace
> >operations (in fact I have them all saved in macros to run consecutively and
> >automatically).
> >
> >The problem is that Word seems to run out of memory and evens warns of
> >insufficient memory. I do not need the 'Undo' feature of Word in these
> >circumstances. How can I turn off 'Undo"? Will that solve my problem? What
> >I'd like to do is include macro code to clear the 'Undo' memory cache after
> >each find&replace operation. Is this possible?
> >
> >Thanks for any and all expert opinions on this!
>
>

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