Word is very slow when I try to move characters around

I'm having to manually manipulate about 400 characters in a word doc
individually. This process is very slow. Word seems to do a lot of
layout stuff each time I add or delete a character. Is there a way to
tell Word not to do the layout stuff when I do this to each character?
Like a way to turn off auto layout adjustment or something?

Thanks

Graham
Wed Sep 19 00:54:10 CDT 2007

Work in normal view with the background repagination option switched off
(tools > options > general in versions before 2007)

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Omatase wrote:
> I'm having to manually manipulate about 400 characters in a word doc
> individually. This process is very slow. Word seems to do a lot of
> layout stuff each time I add or delete a character. Is there a way to
> tell Word not to do the layout stuff when I do this to each character?
> Like a way to turn off auto layout adjustment or something?
>
> Thanks