Every time I attempt to "update citations & bibliography" it hangs.
I have run it in word safe mode. I have run the pc in safe mode. I have run it without backup, without autosave, without antivirus. I have disabled screensavers. I ran the office repair - no change. All to no avail.
It takes several hours to fall over, and the couple of times I watched the winword process memory usage, i saw it fall over at about the same memory use - about 1.8Gb. This computer still shows only 60% memory used so it's not like it's running out of RAM/swap space. It's behaving like an internal coding hard-limit on memory allocation was reached.
All the event viewer shows me is:
Faulting application winword.exe, version 12.0.6668.5000, stamp 5083137f, faulting module mso.dll, version 12.0.6662.5000, stamp 4fd67dd1, debug? 0, fault address 0x00b12066.
Is anyone else having this issue?
Is this fixed in Word 2010 or 2013?
Does anyone have any suggested workarounds?
Comments: ** Comment from web user: fredtheweasel **
Follow up:
I Read Yves' description in another post of the knuckle-headed way the xslt gets loaded/unloaded for every citation.
One possible work-around may be to strip out anything from the xslt that isn't "used" - skeletonize it - to make it quicker to load/unload and take less memory. I have no idea how to:-
1) establish the superset of elements are "in use" in my doc plus those that are required for a well-formed stylesheet
2) create a script to trim them out.
My vi days were long ago and I'm not aware there's an equivalent on the PC. I'm not a Perl or python person. Isn't it sad we're talking about computing from yesteryear to overcome Microsoft's shortcomings?
I'm using the nature style, any hints, suggestions would be appreciated since I am still dead in the water.