"my places" bar keeps popping up every time I open word document

[Old Guy]

Every time I try opening up a word document the "my places" bar pops up and
take forever to load. Any suggestions

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The Places Bar is a fundamental part of the Open and Save dialogs. Perhaps
you have a mapped network drive that is disconnected? See
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313937 for description of a similar problem.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org