Unexpectedly Large Word Document, Performance ProblemsYou may have the following symptoms:
This occurs because the document has blown out with a large amount of spurious data. When Word opens the file, it loads the data into memory, yet the data is not visible in the document. This causes Word to run slowly, because of all the additional processing required to manage the extra data. Also, if the Save Autorecover Info option is enabled, Word will autosave the document frequently, and this will take a long time as the document is so large, and this contributes to the slowness problem. The spurious data may be a large number of empty paragraphs, represented by a stream of 0x0D (ASCII 13; carriage return) characters. Each empty paragraph also has an associated block of data containing format and style information. Hence the large file size and the amount of memory required to open the file. The file may be cleansed by saving to Rich Text format and then back to Word format:
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