Compress Images

The default image resolution for images in Word is220 PPI (pixels per inch).

So, if you’re struggling with a sluggish document, trycompressing your images.

Compressing images reduces their PPI and, thus, their quality.

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The first is to resolve a comment by clicking the three dots, and choosing “Resolve Thread.”

you could delete a single comment by clicking the three dots and selecting “Delete Thread.”

Each paragraph marker holds all the formatting for that paragraph.

An Excel table with a named range.

The document we formatted manually was 83 KB, while the document with Style formatting was 76 KB.

One cause of your sluggish Word document might be that you have too many tables.

There are two ways to tackle this issue.

An image in Microsoft Word is selected, and the Compress Pictures button in the Picture Format tab is highlighted.

First, take a stab at avoid over-formatting your tables.

Instead, opt for one of Word’s simpler pre-designed Table Styles.

To access these, click anywhere in your table, and bring up the “Table Design” tab.

The Compress Pictures dialog box in Word, with Apply Only To This Picture and Web (150 PPI) selected.

Then, choose one of the plain Table Styles.

A second option is to remove the table altogether, while keeping its contents.

), and click “Convert To Text.”

The Word Options dialog box with the Advanced tab opened, and the image resolution changed to 150 PPI.

To disable AutoSave, hit the AutoSave toggle in the top-left corner of your Word document.

If you turn off AutoSave, you’re advised to manually stash your work every few minutes.

Failing to do could lead you to losing your work ifyour computer crashes.

A Word document with the Resolve Thread option selected on a comment.

However, since you’re effectively adding another program to Word, these affect its performance hugely.

Then, to remove an add-in, click “More Add-ins.”

Finally, click “Remove.”

A Word document with the top half of the Show Comments button selected.

This will remove the add-in from your Microsoft account, affecting all Office applications compatible with this add-in.

A Word document with the Delete Thread option selected on a comment.

A Word document with the different options available for deleting comments.

A table in a Word document, with the Table Design tab opened and a plain Table Style selected.

A Word table with the Convert To Text and Tabs options selected.

A Word document with a table converted to text, and the non-printing characters enabled to display the tabs used to maintain the table structure.

The Macros dialog box in Word, with a macro selected and the Delete button highlighted.

The ‘Add-ins’ pane containing two add-ins installed to Office.

‘Office Add-ins’ window, highlighting the ‘My Add-ins’ tab and the three dots to click to remove the add-in.