Yes, you are correct: once you have applied the built-in Heading series
styles, Document Map will work.

The "bloat" you are seeing is probably coming from the Master Document
underpinnings (extra code inserted to enable Master Documents to work...)

I am not sure whether Master Documents is a "Religious Argument", but I can
pretty much guarantee that you will find yourself conversing with or taking
in vain the name of the Deity if you continue editing a master document :-)

Make sure your backup strategy is bullet-proof :-)

Now, Word should not be "sagging" with half a gig of memory on a document
that's only four megs. As others have said, to work comfortably in long
documents:

1) Word in Normal view

2) Turn off everything Automatic, particularly Live Word Count, Smart Tags
etc.

3) Do not allow tables to span more than about 20 pages.

4) Use linked pictures, not embedded pictures.

5) Quit all applications other than Word

6) If you have two physical hard drives, move your paging file to the
device that does NOT contain Windows.

7) Assign a contiguous paging file 1.5 times the memory size and of fixed
size.

Word should "slow" a little at about 1,000 pages, but it should stay with
you up to around 5,500 pages. As you replace direct formatting with
style-based formatting, the file size ought to shrink slightly.

Hope this helps


On 8/2/06 9:58 AM, in article , "Rhino"
wrote:


"PeterMcC" wrote in message
...
Robert M. Franz (RMF) wrote in


Hi Rhino

Rhino wrote:
Is there anything I can do to make it easier to scroll within large
documents?

Just a note to add to RMF's post - have you tried navigating via the
Document Map function?


The document is 1077 pages of pure text. There are no separations between
the "chapters" other than the text "Chapter 1: Foo", "Chapter 2: Bar", etc.
Therefore, there is no Document Map.

If I go to the effort of formatting the document properly, I assume that I
will have a proper DocumentMap by the end of the process but that doesn't
help me now.

Or am I misunderstanding your point?

--
Rhino



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