With Word 2003 on XP, my million or so character doc file never crashed on me after I went to options and unchecked the embed linguistic something or other in "Save." With Word 2013 and Win7 ultimate, I am afraid I have constant trouble with the same word docx (I think an x was afdded after it was converted) overuse (up to 100%) of the cpu in my considerably bmore powerful Lenovo. I had to reduce the saves to once per 30 min rather than every 10 minutes and take great care with how I coordinate my use of the find and my editing etc not to cause a freeze and have to close/restart the program.
My guess is that the word-count is a contributing factor because Japanese does not so easily divide into words as English and due to the lack of AI in Word (it has not come close to approaching the intelligence of Japanese writing software I used in the 90's!) I have had to make common clusters of words into "words" in the dictionary as well. and that could confuse it more. I searched and searched and googled and binged and can find no way to kill the word-count function (not display) of a document. Only characters would be so damn simple.
When one does major research and writing projects with much taxing (categorizing and re-categorizing) involved, the doc must be kept in one-piece for constant finds and moving and adding and subtracting.
One weird thing -- Though the doc has under 2000KB, Word starts work on it in the 10's of thousands and the working memory (I check the ctrl shift esc) has gotten as high as 450,000. It slowly builds over the course of my 18hr work=play days. Does Word have no regulator built-in????
Unless Microsoft can get my Word capable of working with a million character document, I must shop around for better software!
Help!