Tips and Tricks to Speed Up Microsoft Word

If you want to speed up Microsoft Word:

· Go to the view tab and uncheck the “Animated Text box”.

· If you use Word in Normal view, check “Wrap to window”.

· Go to the General tab and uncheck “Provide feedback with animation”.

· If you work with multiple documents, lift the ‘Recently used file list’ entries to 9 which is highest setting. Or down to 0 if you want to disable the Recently Used File List.

· If you use simple Auto-Shapes, uncheck “Automatically create drawing canvas when inserting Auto Shapes”.

· On the Spelling & Grammar tab, uncheck “Check grammar as you type” and “Check grammar with spelling”. If your spelling is good, consider also unchecking “Check spelling as you type”.

· On the Print tab, turn off “Background printing”. Most printers these days are so good that the background printing option is not really that useful.

· Now come out of the Options box and go to “Tools and Auto Correct” Options. There is a tab called “AutoFormat As YouType”. Uncheck all the boxes under “Apply as you type” and “Automatically as you type”.

This article is written for Microsoft Word 2003 and earlier versions. If you use 2007; most options can be found under the Office Button and Word options.