HELP - SOME *.DOT FILES HANG MOMENTARILY

[Calvin Lai]

A textfile (c:\amicus.txt) is generated by a 3rd party application
(Amicus Attorney) which contains the variables needed to be inserted
into fields of a specific *.DOT files. c:\amicus.txt would be
something like this (there are actually way more variables than
below):

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"ContactName", "ContactFirstName", "ContactSurname"
"John Doe", "John", "Doe"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

In any *.DOT file loaded up by Word, all *.DOT files would have
something like:

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Attention:<<ContactName>>

Dear <<ContactFirstName">,

Your name is <<ContactName>>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

So when Amicus Attorney fire up Word, Word will load up the
appropriate *.DOT file and insert the variables from c:\amicus.txt.

Some *.dot files insert variables right away and there's no lag time
in Word. Some others, it hangs for about 15-20 seconds before the
variables are inserted. The *.dot files are located on a network
server.

Anyone know why that would be the case? All the *.DOT are located on
a network server. I've tested it on a test server, still same result.
I don't see why inserting variables from a textfile located locally
would put some lag time on some *.DOT files.

 

[Jezebel]

Are you really inserting data into the templates themselves, or are you
creating documents based on the templates?

Either way, do the templates that hang have any code in them? If there are
other macros triggered by the specific templates, that might explain the
time lag.