Tip #4586 - Faster Scrolling in Word
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Faster
Scrolling in Word
Do you have an
MS Word document that's completely full of graphics? Hate the extra
time it takes to scroll through a document like that? Would you like
Word to work a little faster with the document for you?
If you've answered,
"Yes, yes and yes," here's a quick trick to help with the
slowdown that all the extra pictures tend to cause.
Word has the ability
to use something called a Picture Placeholder in your documents, displaying
only an empty box where the picture belongs. When you use the Print
Preview feature, you'll see the pictures. When you print your document,
you'll see the pictures. But, when you edit your document, you'll
only see an empty frame where your picture will be.
By doing that,
your system doesn't have to use the memory and time to load up the
pictures. It's only working with an empty frame, so the scrolling
speed during your editing will increase, saving you time and frustration!
Ready to learn
the "how to" of this? I thought you might be, so let's get
to it!
In older
versions of MS Word, Picture Placeholders can be found on
the Tools menu, Options choice,
View tab.
In Word
2007, you'll need to use the Office Button
to get to the Word Options button.
Once you're in
the Options dialogue window, you need to go to Advanced
options and scroll down to the Show document content section.
In any version,
you need to locate and check the option for Picture Placeholders
and then click OK.
That's it. You
should find that you're now able to zoom, zoom, zoom when you scroll!
~ April
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