We have serious performance problems with Office 2003 SP1 running on terminal server (Windows Server 2003/Citrix PS4). Occasionally Word almost freezes when a user works with a document. Any keyboard typing causes it to stop responding for a long period of time (seconds to minutes). The cursor quickly changes its forms (text edit <-> arrow). This problem is occured not in all documents, nor all users experience it. It is known that Russian spellchecking engine in SP1 is bad. Those performance issues may be related to MSGRRU32.DLL v. 2.0.14.0 which is installed along with SP1. But I cannot stop the background spellchecking to prove if it is a real source of the problem. Although all authomatic spelling options are turned off Word still displays animated spelling icon (book-and-pencil) in the status bar. Is it possible to prevent this spellchecking feature to run in a background?
Select all text in your document and under Tools > Language select "do not check spelling or grammar." Note, though, that one of the most frequent problems people have is that they have this set and don't know about it. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Evgeniy Lotosh" wrote in message news:BB8D5B73-7B67-4A14-80AC-5BE5034A1B7B@microsoft.com... > We have serious performance problems with Office 2003 SP1 running on > terminal > server (Windows Server 2003/Citrix PS4). Occasionally Word almost freezes > when a user works with a document. Any keyboard typing causes it to stop > responding for a long period of time (seconds to minutes). The cursor > quickly > changes its forms (text edit <-> arrow). This problem is occured not in > all > documents, nor all users experience it. > > It is known that Russian spellchecking engine in SP1 is bad. Those > performance issues may be related to MSGRRU32.DLL v. 2.0.14.0 which is > installed along with SP1. But I cannot stop the background spellchecking > to > prove if it is a real source of the problem. Although all authomatic > spelling > options are turned off Word still displays animated spelling icon > (book-and-pencil) in the status bar. > > Is it possible to prevent this spellchecking feature to run in a > background?
Charles, > Select all text in your document and under Tools > Language select "do not > check spelling or grammar." I know about this way. But users do need to check spelling, at least manually. If we mark the whole text "do not check" then users should select its language manually before spellchecking. The usual way "Select all -> select a text language" does not work well because the text is a mix of Russian and English words (we are speaking about programming project documentation). Imagine big tables (REALLY big - tens and hundreds pages) with English terms, procedures, and variables' names and Russian phrases which need to be checked before be sent to a customer... Evgeniy.
So, have some character styles, at least one for Russian language and one for English. Set the characteristic of the styles to not check. Then, prior to final, change it to allow checking for each of the styles. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Evgeniy Lotosh" wrote in message news:524CFC54-536B-4CE8-A7E1-8E32233EB3F1@microsoft.com... > Charles, > >> Select all text in your document and under Tools > Language select "do >> not >> check spelling or grammar." > > I know about this way. But users do need to check spelling, at least > manually. If we mark the whole text "do not check" then users should > select > its language manually before spellchecking. The usual way "Select all -> > select a text language" does not work well because the text is a mix of > Russian and English words (we are speaking about programming project > documentation). Imagine big tables (REALLY big - tens and hundreds pages) > with English terms, procedures, and variables' names and Russian phrases > which need to be checked before be sent to a customer... > > Evgeniy.
