Word – Small <1MB Word 2013 file takes too long to save

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Couple of Word files (.docx) takes forever to save. Its a small document, 50 pages, 280 KB.

I followed all the usual methods, inspecting the documents and removing all the non-needed data. I only kept the headers and footers as I need them.

I also disabled Auto-save.

I also tried following the methods suggested here, but no joy. It gets really frustrating.

Has anyone faced a similar problem. Also, where can I find any external links to the file, its not in the Inspect Document module.

Edit: Saving the file in *doc format seems to fasten the save process, but still its not instantaneous.

Best Answer

File -> Settings -> Advanced ->Save and disable "Allow Background saves"

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