Merge File

[Roger]

Hi,

We have a user that uses a merge file that contains 5000 records with about
30 items each. She is using a 800 mhz computer with 256 meg ram running w2k
with corel 2002. When she goes to use this merge file, it is slow, but if
she were to reduce the number of records then it is faster. Is there
anything that would help the speed issue, or is that directly related to the
size of the computer? She had been using wp7 and there is no speed issue
there, but the reason to move up is because of other issues.

Thanks

Roger

[Re~Silient]

Mostly system... but also on form file/formatting complexity (on the
complexity side I learned this with the WP Project foir the award
certificate which is a table that has built-in calculations, which slowed
the process down... see below)

These are numbers I did for another test on merging from Outlook... using
WP12
(I had other numbers but can't find them)

specs: P4 2Gh, 512MB RAM
Outlook 2003 Contacts = 5000

1. Launched WP12
2. New From Project, selected Certificate
3. Used the Certificate as the form document,
4. Awarded to Inserted the FIELD(Display Name)
5. Data Source: OL2003 Contacts folder... clicked merge

Start time 2:28pm
(merging documents 2:40)
(fixing tables 2:48)
(Automatic document calculations is ON: calculating tables 2:53)
(Timed backup kicked in 2:55)
End time 2:55pm

27minutes

The resulting file saved is 35Mb and contains 4970 pages (there are
some records that did not have a value for DisplayName)

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Re~Silient
WPO12
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"Roger" <rlu...@co.black-hawk.ia.us> wrote in message
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[Roger]

Thanks for your reply.

I think I may have missed one important thing, and that was that she only
selects one or two records from the merge file that she would use to merge.
I guess that the slow results are a result of such a large file.

Thanks for your help

Roger

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