WinWord.exe has 100% of CPU

[David]

I'm running XP Pro SP2, XP Office 2003 SP3, and when I open a document Word
eventually pegs the processor at 100%. Nothing happens if I open Word with
no document open, and it doesn't happen on all documents. I've already
turned off Advanced Text Features in the Languages section of the Control
Panel. I've also done a search on this topic and it seems the experts have
no answer. I also searched MS solutions - little to almost no mention of
this. Apparently many people are having this problem - search the posts.
Anyone have a silver bullet for this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, (e-mail address removed)

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?RGF2aWQ=?=,

I'm running XP Pro SP2, XP Office 2003 SP3, and when I open a document Word
eventually pegs the processor at 100%. Nothing happens if I open Word with
no document open, and it doesn't happen on all documents.

This is an indication that the documents that cause the behavior have damaged
internal structures. Try saving one of these in XML file format, then re-open
and save back as a Word document (to a different folder or name, of course).
After "round-tripping" it, does it behave normally when you edit it?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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