
Have you used Track Changes for a while with a lot of edits noted on the screen? (These can really slow things down.While you may not have images, with lots of text boxes, performance by Word is similar to having a lot of images.) Does the document contain a lot of text boxes? (Text boxes are very similar to graphics.(Because you said you had no images, I won't include any suggestions relative to them.) You mentioned that it was "just text" and contained no images, but you may want to check the following. Now you may want to look at what is in your document. This can then allow Word to work with the document faster. The reason that saving the document in different versions works is because it causes Word to, internally, "double check" pointers and references to make sure they are correct and as optimal as possible. Save the document in RTF format, get out of Word, get back into Word, load the RTF file, and save it under a new name in the current DOCX format.


The file size of the document is not terribly large, being under 2 MB. The document is just text, with no images, and contains about 2,700 pages. Hal has a very large document that he works with regularly.
