word cpu usage

[isidore]

i'm using word version 10.0 with windows xp. i'm having my
documents (regular 'term-paper' type documents with no
graphics, no web links), regardless of their length
trigger the cpu to use 100 percent of its power, usually
after i've typed about a page's worth.

can someone tell me why it's doing this? it's gotten to
the point where i cannot use word anymore.

 

[Graham Mayor]

There's nothing in Word that should do this - so what else are you loading
with it? Some third party add-in? Winfax? Norton AV plug-in for Office?

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[isidore]

nothing, as far as i know. word requests a virus scan
every time i open a document, but besides that, nada. i'm
not even sure why i would want a 'third-party add-in'. i
have norton av 2002, but it's the basic no-frills version.
all i use word for is to type out papers.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You might want to disable the Norton Office Plug-in, which conflicts with
many other add-ins and Word itself and is not necessary provided you leave
Auto-Protect enabled.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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[isidore]

this might sound stupid, but how do i verify that i even
have norton office plug-in activated on microsoft word?

 

[Graham Mayor]

If you have not turned it off, and you are running Norton AV, it will be on!
Turn it off from Norton AV > Options > Miscellaneous

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It will be generating the "Requesting virus scan" when you start Word or
open a document.

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[Dayo Mitchell]

There was a long thread about Word documents using 99% of CPU in April and
May of this year, on the MS.public.word.newusers NG.

Here is the link for the longest thread:
http://www.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&threadm=exT0Po$DDHA
..2892%40TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fsafe%3Dimages%26ie%3DISO-
8859-1%26as_ugroup%3Dmicrosoft.public.word.*%26as_usubject%3Dcpu%26as_uautho
rs%3DMin%26lr%3Dlang_en%26num%3D30%26hl%3Den

The title for that one is "Word 2000 files take 99% cpu time!"

But the original poster was Min, and advanced searching Google Groups for
Min as author and CPU in subject produces a few other threads with similar
titles.

Perhaps that thread will shed some light on the issue? Terry Farrell put a
lot of time into Min's problem.

DM

 

[Graham Mayor]

Unfortunately Terry is busy at the moment or he would have picked this one
up.

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[isidore]

Thanks for the links. I did read the exchanges started by
Min's posts, but there seem to be differences (and lots of
similarities). In my case, it doesn't depend on the size
of the document. Nor the document itself as this seems to
happen at one time or another with any document, almost
randomly. (I even opened one of the cpu-affecting
documents at another computer with similar specs and the
same thing happened: 100% cpu.)

1. In 'general', when I open up a blank document and type
something up (less than 5 pages), the cpu is normal.

2. In the past, copy-pasting the document into wordpad
then recopying it into word made the cpu go back to
normal. Now, this has no effect.

3. A document that didn't trigger cpu-power to 100% will,
all of a sudden (usually after about 8 pages of single-
spaced text at size 12 in Times New Roman font) trigger
the cpu to full power. As soon as this happened, i used
the 'undo' button to go back a few letters. The cpu power
went back to normal. I then used the 'redo' button to go
forward a couple of letter again. The cpu shot back up.
This means that I cannot modify my documents after a
certain point...

I've tried isolating larger documents that trigger the cpu
by cutting it down to smaller documents, but this seems
futile due to what I've described in '3.'

Right now, I have spell/grammar check, automatic
capitalization/correction, '--' to a single dash, etc.
tools all turned off. To no effect.

At your suggestion, I also tried opening word
with 'winword a/' (this and other suggestions were also
mentioned in the thread started by Min), but still had cpu
go up to 100%.

It seems to be a general phenomenon with word, impossible
to isolate. I have no plug-ins, macros turned off, etc.
and my text has no graphics, html, etc.