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Word document chugging
Working on a technical document for security but our word document is chugging when opening and horrendous performance when we edit anything.
What we have currently is a document that has literally hundreds of security controls with each control being a separate table. This is making the document several hundred pages long depending on what computer system is being written about. For each control, we have an additional table embedded in the existing table as seen in the attached image. I think the embedded table in a table is what is part of causing the issue with performance in Word.
Is there a better way of making these selection boxes like making a radio box? Since the selections are a one only for Type and Status, i think a radio button would be better.
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Long multi-page tables can slow Word down. Nested tables can slow Word down.
Radio buttons will not speed things up.
Are you using Content Control checkboxes or are you using legacy formfield checkboxes? Content Controls would give superior performance.
See the following which use neither, but use macrobutton checkboxes/toggles instead:
