Why is Word 2008 taking soooo looong to open?

[Jeffrey Ellis]

I've never seen anything like this. Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks.

All My Best,
Jeffrey

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Impossible to even think about the question without details of exact
Word and OS version.

 

[CyberTaz]

How can anyone say whether you're doing anything wrong when we don't know
what you're doing, how you're doing it, or what you're doing it with?

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

what you're doing, how you're doing it, or what you're doing it with?

That's very close to a Prince song that is now going to be trapped in my
head all afternoon, Bob. Thanks. If only I knew which one....

 

[Doug]

Jeffrey,

Just so you know, you're not alone. Word 2008 has some serious
launching issues on my computer as well. SP1 made it a bit better, and
10.5.3 made it better still, but even so, Word will sometimes take
over 30 seconds to launch on my late model 17" MBP. Evidently, it's an
issue that isn't affecting everyone, but nothing has fixed this issue
completely for me, and it's not widespread enough problem to get any
help from the group (or perhaps others are just more patient than we
are . I heard that Office 2008 has some issues with Nvidia GPUs,
and this problem may still be tied into that; I think the Leopard
Graphics Update that came out right after 10.5.2 was the beginning of
the problem, but I didn't have Office 2008 until after that was
released so it's hard for me to be sure. Out of curiosity, are you on
a MBP?

Doug