Word 2007 slow to load documents

[Jeff]

Word has suddenly become very slow at loading documents. A simple one page
document takes about a minute to open. It seems to work fine once the
document is open. Can anyone help?

Thanks

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

How are you opening the file(s)? Are you opening from within Word, or are
you double-clicking in Windows Explorer?

Is the document located on the same computer, or is it on a network server?
If the latter, then perhaps there is a network problem.

If the former... does the problem go away when you reboot?

If not... what happens if you start Word in safe mode (hold Ctrl as Word is
opening, and click Yes to starting in safe mode)? Do the same document still
open slowly?

 

[Jeff]

Herb

Thanks for the response. This has been occuring for a couple of days now and
appears not to be related to how I open the document, what the document
contains or any change I have made to the computer.

Strange thing is it appears to have corrected itself just now. Don't know
why but there you go, all better I think.

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

This happens all the time. Sometimes I just show up, and problems disappear.
;-)

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com

 

[Lance]

Hello, I'm having the exact same problem.

I've tried everything suggested earlier (starting Word in safe mode and
rebooting), and I'm not accessing the document over a network.

To clairify, my problem isn't with Word opening documents slowly (once the
program is already running), but the program itself loading very, very slowly
(about 10-15 seconds).

Any suggestions?

Thanks

 

[jesseb]

I have the problem also but with an addition problem. After the document
loads if there is a second document and I switch over it takes 10 - 15
seconds for the second document to appear.
What a mess.

thanks, (e-mail address removed)

 

[Terry Farrell]

So what happens when you open in Safe Mode?

 

[jesseb]

It works perfectly... so what does this mean?
Is there a DLL bad or... ?

Thanks, Jesseb

 

[Terry Farrell]

Almost certainly there is a third party add-in that is screwing up Word.
Check in Templates and add-ins to see what is active. These are usually
installed in the Word Startup folder which forces Word to load them on
startup. remove all that you find and then replace them one at a time until
you find the culprit. TIP: Adobe and Symantec add-ins are usually the worse
problems.

Terry