If you want to change the style of your table of contents (e.g.Note: If you are using Word 2013, this option is called Custom Table of Contents.On the References Ribbon, in the Table of Contents Group, click on the arrow next to the Table of Contents icon, and select Insert Table of Contents….Place your cursor where you want your table of contents to be.If you have used Heading styles in your document, creating an automatic table of contents is easy. All subheadings should be labeled Heading 3, and so on. All major headings within your chapters should be labeled Heading 2. “Dedication” and “Acknowledgements”) in the style Heading 1. If you want an automatic table of contents you need to label all of your chapter titles and front matter headings (e.g. Microsoft Word can scan your document and find everything in the Heading 1 style and put that on the first level of your table of contents, put any Heading 2’s on the second level of your table of contents, and so on. I guess the next test is to disable all protected views and see if that resolves the issue.You cannot generate any automatic tables without first using styles effectively throughout your document. I haven't yet disable the option for Protected View for documents originating from the internet. saved yesterday when I was testing this issue), those documents still cause the system slowdown. After restarting my computer, I can now open Word documents attached to an email and this does NOT slow down the machine.Ģ) However, if I go back to documents previously saved from an email before disabling the Protected View for Outlook attachments (e.g.

Notepad window, all of these operations are terribly slow.ġ) I disabled the protected view only for Outlook attachments. Please note that within Word, there is no slowdown at all, it's only when I go to the Win7 toolbar that the issue appears - trying to get the preview, or pull up and run something from the Start menu, or typing in the Run box, or typing in a I tried disabling the Protected View in Word 2010 (Word documents are the only type of Office document that cause this problem pptx, xlsx etc are fine at least as far as I've tested), and this seems to have shed a bit more light This leads me to believe that it is some sort of bug with the Word protected view or other type of document protection that is interacting poorly with the Win7 operating system.Īs I mentioned, I've reproduced this effect on a different machine, so I'm curious if anyone else has observed this.

If I copy and paste the text from a downloaded document into a new document, and then save the new document to the computer, then this new document does NOT slow the system,īut the old one still will. There seems to be a relationship to whether the document originated somewhere else (like one saved from an email causes the problem) or not (like one created fresh on my computer and saved does not). I’m still not sure if the “protected view” of Word 2010 enhances the problem or not, but

If I open a fresh new Word document by clicking on the toolbar icon, I do NOT have the same issue. Two to respond to each single character that I type. Pressing the start button and typing the word 'Run' takes more than ten seconds, and even using the Notepad is painfully slow - like a second or (via Outlook, Thunderbird, a webmail system), all Win7 system functions slow to a snail’s pace. On *both* of them, when I open a Word document from an email I have two Dell machines (XPS 420 and XPS 8100) on which I've installed Win7 Enterprise (64-bit) and Office 2010.

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