Word documents take ages to load?

[Anders Biro]

Hello, I have come across the problem that certain documents takes up to a
minute to load (or effectively the word application hangs for a long time
before showing the documents)
This does only happen with certain documents and I have tried installations
of both Office 2003 Professional and Small Business Edition with the same
result.
At some computers they still work like a dream so they cannot be corrupted
but takes a long time to load at most Office installations? What could
possibly be wrong? Is it a configuration issue?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

How to optimize Word 2003, Word 2002, and Word 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;827101

4 Ways to Speed Up Your Computer's Performance
http://www.microsoft.com/atwork/getstarted/speed.mspx

System Mechanic
http://www.iolo.com/sm/5/index.cfm

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

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| Hello, I have come across the problem that certain documents takes up to a
| minute to load (or effectively the word application hangs for a long time
| before showing the documents)
| This does only happen with certain documents and I have tried installations
| of both Office 2003 Professional and Small Business Edition with the same
| result.
| At some computers they still work like a dream so they cannot be corrupted
| but takes a long time to load at most Office installations? What could
| possibly be wrong? Is it a configuration issue?

 

[Tom]

Delete the Normal.Dot file. It will re generate a new one MUCH smaller.