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Dear phpdocx support team,

I am currently using WordFragment and addFormElement with addTable to generate a Word document with a table. The table consists of 250 rows, and each row contains 5 cells. In the first two cells, I add text, and in the remaining three, I add checkboxes by addFormElement. After this, I add another row with two cells, the first one being empty and the second one containing a text field by addFormElement.

Here is a simplified version of my code:

$docx = new CreateDocx();
for ($i = 1; $i <= 250; $i++) {
    for ($j = 1; $j <= 5; $j++) {
        $item = new WordFragment($docx);
        if ($j >= 3) {
            $item->addFormElement('checkbox');
        } else {
            $item->addText($i);
        }

        $cell = ['value' => $item, 'border' => 'nil', 'cellMargin' => ['left' => 0, 'right' => 0]];
        $row[] = $cell;
    }
    $table[] = $row;
    unset($row);

    for ($j = 1; $j <= 2; $j++) {
        $itemRemark = new CRWordFragment($docx);
        $cell = [];
        if ($j == 2) {
            $itemRemark->addFormElement('textfield');
        } else {
            $itemRemark->addText('');
        }
        $cell = ['value' => $itemRemark, 'border' => 'nil', 'cellMargin' => ['left' => 50, 'right' => 50]];
        $rowRemark[] = $cell;
    }
    $table[] = $rowRemark;
    unset($rowRemark);
}

$options = ['columnWidths' => [950, 8300, 250, 250, 250], 'cantSplitRows' => true, 'tableLayout' => 'fixed', 'tableAlign' => 'center', 'tableWidth' => ['type' => 'twips', 'value' => 10000]];
$docx->addTable($table, $options);
$docx->createDocx("text.docx");

The issue I am facing is that this operation takes around 10 seconds to complete and the output file is only 70KB, which is a bit too long for my use case. I was wondering if there is any way to optimize this process or if there are any best practices that I could follow to improve the performance.

Thank you for your help.