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> From: Gene Kim-Eng [mailto:techwr -at- genek -dot- com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 12:34
> To: McLauchlan, Kevin; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: Word 2003 so-o-o-o-o slo-o-o-o-ow
>
> Try using the options tool to display picture placeholders
> instead of images. If everything speeds up, it is the
> graphics. How big are the original graphic files?
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
Oh, and the page-background graphic is part of the header, not the main
document stream, so that "picture placeholder" option doesn't work on
it.
Time to convert yet another document to OpenOffice.org and see what
happens.
Cheers,
Kevin
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