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From: drp@dosbears.UUCP (David R. Preston)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: W4W EXTREMELY slow
Message-ID: <298@dosbears>
Date: 5 May 91 04:21:28 GMT
References: <1991May4.204118.2770@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Reply-To: drp%dosbears.uucp@ingres.com (David R. Preston)
Organization: DosBears
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In article <1991May4.204118.2770@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> alansari@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Mohammad Al-Ansari) writes:
>
>I was typing a paper that had a complicated formulas and just as I
>started typing in the formulas (using W4W formula fields) W4W became
>unbelievably slow!
>But after a hours slow painful editing W4W was all of a sudden very
>fast again!!

I dunno, but were you doing saves during this time?  I'd suggest
if it happens again that you do a full save (not using fast save),
and see if that helps.  Also, do you have a "reasonable" amount
of memory on this machine?  (and please don't tell us that it's
a 4mhz Tasmanian pc upgraded to a 286 with 512k memory and you're
running from a floppy :-)


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