Word 2003 Takes Several Minutes To Load

[Anthony Bollinger]

It was nearly unbearable before, but after installing the latest service
packs, now I get about 8 macro warnings and Word eats up the whole machine
for a few minutes. Just installed SP3 with a few other packs, so I guess
that is what is hitting it, but I just need to disable all of these startup
macros and bypass whatever else it is trying to do. How do you do that?

Thanks!
Tony

 

[JoAnn Paules]

Dump the existing normal.dot and create a new one.
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/BlankDocNotBlank.htm

(I know - the reason isn't the same but it still gets you to the same end
point - a clean document to start with.)

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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[Anthony Bollinger]

I deleted and restarted Word and it recreated Normal.dot, but this did not
eliminate all of those macro messages. I want to absolutely delete and kill
and cancel all of those macros. I don't need them or want them. How do I
do that?

Thanks! Tony

 

[Graham Mayor]

In that case you have some add-in(s) loading with Word. There are no macros
in normal.dot unless you put them there. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CheckIfAddinsInstalled.htm

See also http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm then
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm


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[Anthony Bollinger]

Thanks, I will check these out! --Tony