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Couple of Word files (.docx) takes forever to save. Its a small document, 50 pages, 280 KB.

I followed all the usual methods, inspecting the documents and removing all the non-needed data. I only kept the headers and footers as I need them.

I also disabled Auto-save.

I also tried following the methods suggested here, but no joy. It gets really frustrating.

Has anyone faced a similar problem. Also, where can I find any external links to the file, its not in the Inspect Document module.

Edit: Saving the file in *doc format seems to fasten the save process, but still its not instantaneous.

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  • Are you saving to a local directory or a network directory?
    – Ramhound
    Mar 2, 2015 at 12:37
  • Local directory. On my computer only.
    – Firee
    Mar 2, 2015 at 12:43
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    Try to launch MS Word at the command line, with "winword.exe /a" to start with no add-ins or templates. Mar 2, 2015 at 14:11
  • @dude: tried it, didn't work... Situation still the same...
    – Firee
    Mar 3, 2015 at 6:13
  • try to rename a copy of your file to ...zip and extract it. How big are the extracted files. I often had a similar problem when drawing in word. The docx files are small, but the unzipped files are huge...
    – Steffen
    Mar 11, 2015 at 15:59

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File -> Settings -> Advanced ->Save and disable "Allow Background saves"

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    Does this actually help the time of normal saves?
    – Ben N
    Feb 14, 2016 at 23:36
  • This helped me, not sure it works for every slow save problem but it does help for some. This is a valid answer. May 5, 2016 at 12:15
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In addition to what David suggested, also try going to

File -> Options -> Save tab and uncheck everything there. Word seems to do a lot of unnecessary things by default every time you save. I save by pressing CTRL+S instinctively every few minutes and all those extra steps just waste time.

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The main reason behind this would be:

  • Whenever when it will happen just open task manager in your computer.
  • Search for "paint" in background processes.
  • After finding that make a right click on it and select end task.

The problem will be solved.

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  • I am unsure whether this is generally helpful. Paint is seldom a background process. Mar 19, 2021 at 15:48

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