Word 2007 - slow opening

[David W Allen]

I seem to recall having had this problem with an earlier version of
Office, but it appears to have returned with Office 2007.

Opening the programme seems to take forever, certainly in excess of ten
seconds from clicking the desktop icon.

Is there a known cure, since I cannot recall what I did last time.

Thanks.

Alandale

 

[Terry Farrell]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm

 

[David W Allen]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm

Thanks Terry. Some of the solutions apply to earlier versions of Word,
but I did find that for some unknown reason I had 8 copies of the
'Normal.dot' file. Deleted 7 of these and opening now much faster - 2
seconds or thereabouts.

Alandale