Word Document really slow to open

[Joe Fisher]

Word 2002 (XP) -Office 2002
XP Pro, SP2
P4, 3.2 G
1 G RAM
250G Hard drive
120G Hard Drive
Radeon 9600 Vid Card

My computer seems to be clean (no visible spyware, virii, trojans, etc.)

I have quite a few Word documents, it takes about 5 seconds for them to
open. I"ll dclick on one to open it, oftentimes I'll dc on it *again* since
it's taking so long. The documents aren't too long, perhaps one page.

NOTE: This seems to be a problem that started to work across the Whole
office suite. (well, word and excel anyway)

Not a huge problem, but just wondering if this is something I can fix.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you're running Norton AntiVirus, disable its Office Plug-in.

 

[Joe Fisher]

No Norton stuff on my computer. I use Avast, I'll look around to see if
there's any office stuff in it. While on the subject, I use Kerio Personal
Firewall (although is was the same when I used Sygate)

Joe

 

[Joe Fisher]

Avast doesn't appear to have an Office plug in . Any other ideas, things to
look for?

Joe

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Are the documents on a network? And/or are they attached to templates that
have been moved or deleted?

 

[Joe Fisher]

No, and No. But thanks for all the ideas!
I'm planning on reformatting and reinstalling soon, it might clear up when I
do that.

 

[Graham Mayor]

It probably won't. reinstalling rarely achieves anything useful. Try
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm followed by
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm

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