Looking for solution for editing huge files ( > 150 pages, > 150 inserted jpegs)

An i3 is a slow processor.

Consider a machine that is an i7 CPU, large SSD drive (for speed) and 16 GB of memory. That is roughly what I am working on here.

Now use Office 2016 64-bit (not 32-bit).

Try one machine / environment like this and see if it works. I think it might.

Thank you for your response. Is machine's performance such a crucial factor in his case? My intention was to find dedicated text processor which is optimized for dealing with huge files.

BTW can Google Docs enhance performance?

A slow machine will slow Word down for sure. Google Docs are online and not likely to solve the bottleneck issue.

Thank you for your thoughts. We made a test with a virtual machine running on VMWare host with SATA drives. We have provided the machine with 2 CPUs and 16GB RAM but the performance still sluggish. Therefore I believe that it is mostly a hard drive issue. Moreover, the employees use to open files which are sitting on the file server and I consider that the network performance is the most vulnerable bottleneck. Subsequently, I strongly believe that we need some sort of doc management system that will allow users to check-in and check-out files. Checked-in files will be automatically copied to the local drive and this will enhance the performance. Make sense?

Local SSD won't help much if the file has been opened from file server over the network

Try doing it locally and then backup the file when done. For what you are doing , local processing makes more sense. It would seem to be a process not needing multiple simultaneous editors

No doubt it will run much better on SSD, but users won't copy every single file to the local drive, then update it and then copy it back to the file server. Not even talking about conflicting updates.

If you stick with a slow environment to keep files on a network, not much will speed it up

That's why I'm looking for a complex solution. SSD is only a part of the puzzle. I think I need file management system with check-in/check-out to utilize local SSD properly

> huge text files with a lot of pictures
> Microsoft Word 2013

Are they DOCX files?

Joe Winograd, yes, DOCX files

aikimark, thank you. Actually, I already did. See one of my responses above: "We made a test with a virtual machine running on VMWare host with SATA drives. We have provided the machine with 2 CPUs and 16GB RAM but the performance still sluggish. Therefore I believe that it is mostly a hard drive issue."

Thank you all for your answers. After deep testing, we realized that we have an issue on all machines, regardless the machine's performance. We experience the problem with both local and network located files. When scrolling Word file pictures get stuck and "crumpled". The kinda weird thing, like the graphic card can not re-render the monitor...  Therefore, we tried to scroll the file on a machine with Nvidia Quadro graphic card and got the same issue. Looks like MS Word issue

Looks like MS Word issue

Please answer these two questions from my previous post:

(1) What is the file size (in MB) of the typical DOCX file?
(2) What is the file size (in KB or MB) of the typical JPEG file?

Thanks, Joe

Dear All,

Thank you for your useful responses and comments. At the end, we realized that there is nothing to do with the machine's performance. We experience the same issues on i7 machine with 16GB RAM.

Joe, I will provide the files' size shortly

BR,

> We experience the same issues on i7 machine with 16GB RAM.

Good to know — and exactly what I expected.

> I will provide the files' size shortly

That should be interesting.

We haven't heard back from the asker in two weeks, so I'm going to take a run at closing this. The asker's last comment is key: "At the end, we realized that there is nothing to do with the machine's performance. We experience the same issues on i7 machine with 16GB RAM." However, one lingering question after that comment is due to his not saying anything about the hard drive on that machine, specifically, is it HDD, SSD, or SSHD? So I'm going to accept John's comment about the hard drive as an Assisted Solution — and also because the asker endorsed it (also accepting John's other comment about SSD). In addition, I'm accepting John's comment about SharePoint as an Assisted Solution, as it addresses the asker's follow-up question on Document Management and check-in/check-out — and also because the asker endorsed it. Although in this particular case, virtual machines did not solve the problem, I think it is worthwhile for folks to find aikimark's comments in the PAQ, as they could be helpful in other circumstances, so I'm marking both of them as Assisted Solutions. Finally, at the end of the day, the real issue seems to be that the DOCX files are simply too big with too many and/or too large JPEG files for Word to process quickly — the solution would seem to be making smaller files that Word can handle better, so I'm marking that post as the Accepted Solution. Splitting the points evenly among the three experts. Regards, Joe