Slow conversion from Word 2003

I have a 125-page Word 2003 document with lots of tables and hundreds of bookmarks. Converting this to PDF takes about a half hour, with one of my processors pegged at 100%, and that's if I turn off tagging. Is this performance normal?

Good thoughts. I was able to print directly to PDF and it took only about 5 minutes, but of course I lost all my bookmarks, which are crucial. After that, with the Adobe PDF still selected as my printer, I again used the "save to pdf" option. Still, it repaginated my document many times at the start of the conversion process. During the "scanning for bookmarks" phase, it appeared to be repaginating my whole document for each bookmark (107 times!) But this still only took a few minutes. The lengthy part seems to be after that, where I can't really tell what it's doing because neither the Word window nor the Acrobat PDFMaker progress dialog gets refreshed. However I get glimpses of "repagination" messages flashing by at the bottom of my Word window every second or two (hundreds of these) with the scroll bar slider bopping around all over the place, constantly.
I'll accept this rotten performance if it's normal, but if I can do anything about it, it would be nice.

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reimer1606 wrote:
First, my apologies because this is probably off topic but no one answered in the officeformac.com forum.
Now, to my question.
I often have to work with Word documents (from 10 to 100 or so pages) that have been created using Word 2003 for Windows. In these docs, track changes is turned on.
When I open them with Word 2008 for Mac (in compatibility mode) everything works okay. I can edit and changes are tracked (with bubbles at the side and all).
However, when I copy the doc back on the server (samba share) and open the doc again with Word 2003 on a Windows machine, the docs are often (though not always) messed up. To be precise, all the tables are split up in such a way, that each row of a table appears on it's own page. All the content is there, but the tables are spread over multiple pages.
I have all the Mac and Word updates installed and also installed the Windows fonts.
Has anyone had similar experiences? Any ideas what could be causing this?
Best regards
My only thoughts would be to try NeoOffice or OpenOffice, both of which are extremely MS Office compatible, and work on Leopard. They also have PC versions as well.
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Slow conversion from Word 2003

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