Need to optimize work in large word documents

[Johna Johansson]

How can I optimize the work in a large word document. It is 200 pages and 29MB.

We are several project members editing this document stored in Share point and we experiencing a huge negative impact on performance, when we save load, etc. As an example, adding picures or graphs is not possible on Share point, but solved when we download and upload after adding the pictures.

The outcome of this action is to provide a report for a customer in a pdf format.

How can we enhance/improve the work so we increase performance and reduce latency to a minimum, when it comes to the product features? Are we using word in the wrong way?

 I am aware that network, hardware etc can have an impact on this negative experience, but this is not something the project team can take action on. Like to start with enhancements in Word. Any suggestions would be great!

[#2]

Short answer is you cannot...Assuming you are talking about SPO, there is nothing you can do in regards of performance when doing co-authoring in Office...of course, you can improve overall performance when accessing Office 365 from your local network

[#3]

Ok, thanks

[#4]

One thing I've seen is if the a file has a massive table structure that can be a big impact on performance, for example an RFP response or a contract where everything is a table. Take the contact out of the table and it performs better.

[#5]

Thats true, I remeber discovering that in the early 2000. I will look into that. Thanks!