Weirdly slow office programs

[bearspa]

I seem to have a weird problem with Word and Excel (2003). if I click on
either shortcut, the program opens reasonably quickly, and then it also opens
any file quickly (whether it is from the recent files list or by finding it
through "File Open".

However, if I doubleclick the Word or Excel file directly (say in Explorer),
it takes forever to open Word/Excel,and then loading the file takes quite
long too. Same problem with rtf files created with Wordpad. Also, same slow
reaction if I rightmouse the file and either "Open" or "Open With".

This is a problem that only started overthe last couple of days, and I don't
think I've installed anything new.

I am totally confused.

Any suggestions will be gratefully accepted. I have also posted this in the
Word and Office forums. I hope that is acceptable.

 

[Gord Dibben]

Try the usual fix for this.

Tools>Options>General Uncheck "Ignore Other Applications"

If no joy with that................

Close Excel first and On the Windows Taskbar

1) Start>Run "excel.exe /unregserver"(no quotes)>OK.
2) Start>Run "excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)>OK.

See the space between exe and /regserver

You might have to designate a full path to excel.exe.

In that case Start>Run "C:\yourpath\excel.exe" /regserver(quotes
required)>OK.

To re-register Word................

Start>Run winword /r


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

 

[bearspa]

Thanks, Gord. The "Ignore Other Applications" was unchecked, but the
unregistering and registering worked beautifully. I'm not sure what had
happened that caused the problem, but it is now working perfectly.

Thanks, again.