Word 2000 continually saves

[Chris]

I recently noticed that when I work in a Word document,
the tiny hourglass signifiying that the document is being
saved appears every few seconds. Needless to say, this
is very annoying. In addition to re-installing Word
multiple times from my disks, I have disabled Norton
Systemworks 2004, but to no avail. Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Chris

 

[garfield-n-odie]

Hi, Chris. Does it help if you turn off "Check spelling as you type" and "Check grammar as you type" in Tools | Options | Spelling & Grammar?

 

[Chris]

Hi,

Yes - I've turned off those features, but it still shows
an hourglass every couple of seconds. I wonder if
there's a Word utility running in the background that I'm
not aware of. I don't experience this problem with any
other program I use, so I'm really at a loss.

Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
Hi, Chris. Does it help if you turn off "Check spelling

as you type" and "Check grammar as you type" in Tools |
Options | Spelling & Grammar?

 

[Tagus]

On the Tools menu, Options, Save tab, see what the "Save AutoRecover info every:" has in its "minutes" box. I'm able to manually enter 0.1 (or every 6 seconds). If changing the number to something reasonable (mine is 10 minutes) doesn't work, clear the "Save AutoRecover info every:" check box. If that doesn't work either, clear the "Allow background saves" check box.
By the way, the background save icon on the status bar is a receding floppy disk, not an hourglass. Are we talking about the same thing?
Hope this helps.

I recently noticed that when I work in a Word document,
the tiny hourglass signifying that the document is being
saved appears every few seconds.

-snip

 

[Chris]

Tagus,

You seem to have found the fallacy in my thinking - I am
seeing an hourglass, so that would mean it's not saving.
I have no idea what it is. I'm running Webroot Spyware
and Systemworks 2004, if that means anything.

Thanks,

Chris

-----Original Message-----
On the Tools menu, Options, Save tab, see what the "Save

AutoRecover info every:" has in its "minutes" box. I'm
able to manually enter 0.1 (or every 6 seconds). If
changing the number to something reasonable (mine is 10
minutes) doesn't work, clear the "Save AutoRecover info
every:" check box. If that doesn't work either, clear
the "Allow background saves" check box.

By the way, the background save icon on the status bar

is a receding floppy disk, not an hourglass. Are we
talking about the same thing?

 

[Graham Mayor]

An hourglass indicates a wait state caused by some process having full
control. Saving would be one example, but there are others. Most likely
would be an errant add-in with the Norton AV office plug-in being a prime
candidate.

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