If you export a complex InfoPath view to web archive (.mht) file then edit it in Word, you may notice that Word takes a long time to paginate the document when you switch to print layout for the first time. This is happening because the .mht file has a lot of tall and nested tables spanning across multiple pages and it is hard for Word to layout those tables on pages.

So what can we do about it? Not much from InfoPath side, as most those tables are produced by InfoPath container controls such as repeating sections, lists, etc. However, from Word side, if you think about it, th