Weird MS Word problem

[RangerWickett]

I'm editing a large document in MS Word, using the Track Changes feature, and for some reason every time I scroll up past a table, the screen jumps to the top of the document. For instance, there's a table on page 48, and I'm editing page 49 and I realize I want to doublecheck something on page 47, so I hit 'page up' twice, and instead of going to page 47, it goes to the 1st page.

I'm very competent with MS Word usually, so this thing is confusing the heck out of me. Any ideas?

Interestingly, when I copy/pasted the whole thing into a new document, there was no problem with scrolling. But all the track changes information is lost in the transition.

 

[Keith Robinson]

I've generally found that problems with tables start to arise when they cannot fit onto a single page, though I've never experienced the problem you've described. Are your tables particularly long (if so, try cutting them into mulitple tables)? Do you have a lot of tables in your document (try cutting out a few and see if that improves the user experience)? Also, does this happen with every table, or just certain ones (in which case remove them and then rebuild them from scratch and see if you get the same problem)?

Tables are a real pain in Word, as all too often they have a life of their own!

 

[Troll Wizard]

I'm editing a large document in MS Word, using the Track Changes feature, and for some reason every time I scroll up past a table, the screen jumps to the top of the document. For instance, there's a table on page 48, and I'm editing page 49 and I realize I want to doublecheck something on page 47, so I hit 'page up' twice, and instead of going to page 47, it goes to the 1st page.

I'm very competent with MS Word usually, so this thing is confusing the heck out of me. Any ideas?

Interestingly, when I copy/pasted the whole thing into a new document, there was no problem with scrolling. But all the track changes information is lost in the transition.

Assuming you want to keep the track changes edits marked.
Uising Office XP/2003, leave track changes turned on, but on the reviewing toolbar switch to "Final" view. You won't be able to see the tracked changes, but in the background the computer is tracking them. See if you can page up and down easily now?

Another possible solution:
One of the biggest problems with Word XP/2003 is the track format changes command (which at default install is always on). Under Tools - Options - Edit tab - un-check the "keep track of formatting" check box. This will help your computer's performance with track changes, because styles are macros and this command is making copies of each style you modified in your document (e.g. Normal - bold, Normal italics, Normal - Arial Bold, etc.).

You can also clean up your document by first turning off track changes, then:
Select Format - Styles and Formatting, go thru the styles list within your document and delete any you are not using. Odds are that one of these macros has a bug in them. Save your document.

Turn Track changes back on and resume work on your document.

One more possible solution
Turn off track changes,
go through the table that is causing you to jump to the top of the document and change ALL the styles (and/or table template) to a specific table format style (e.g. Arial, 10 pt, centered within cell, internal margins .2 all around, etc. or whatever you desire).
Save your file
Turn on track changes
test page up

and one more solution
turn off track changes
select whole table that is causing the problem
convert to text with tab separators
copy and cut
paste special - unformatted text
select again and convert to table
format to desired table template
turn on track changes
test page up


Hope something in there helps.