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Word keeps freezing when editing long document with heavy revisions
This is months later, and you have likely already solved your issues. However, I have just solved this for myself today, and I want to give other people who come to this thread some advice:
1. If you use Norton 360, turn off script controls for Word. You can see how to do that here: https://support.norton.com/sp/en/au/home/current/solutions/v132996618?displang=iso3%3Aeng&helpid=disarm_faq&inid=hho_star_support_disarm_faq&ssdcat=325
2. If you have a Grammarly add-on (as I do), turn off its run in the background feature. Go to the Grammarly menu>Settings (far right under log out) >disable run in background and open by default. After this, close and reopen your Word program.
3. Turn off Text Predictions. Right click the grey bar at the bottom of your screen. Text predictions is about halfway up. Toggle it so that there is no checkmark.
4. If this hasn't worked, go to Apps & Features (in Windows), scroll to Office 365, right click, click on modify, run an online repair, and restart your computer when it's done.
This did it for me. I regularly work on >250 page documents that wind up with >4000 changes. The slowdown was becoming a pain.
Good luck!
