Word keeps pausing while running

[leobird]

While working in MS Word 2003 my cursor turns into a sand-dial every
few seconds and the program does some sort of work, like saving, but I
don't what exactly it is doing. On the lower menu area it says, Word
is....but I don't have time to read what the whole things says. I have
turned off auto-save, fast saves and auto-recovery is set at 15
minutes. The problem occured after the program ran normally for many
months.

I have used MS Word's detect and repair tool, and have removed and
re-installed the whole Office package. The problem occurs on any
document, small and large files. It is really annoying because it
basically freezes every 5 seconds. I have also run a virus scan using
Norton and nothing came up.

Any ideas what may be going on?

 

[leobird]

Some more info on the problem. The CPU useage fluctuates between 4 and
38% in cyclical manner when Microsoft Office runs and the change in CPU
useage is only for Winword in the task manager.

 

[leobird]

Some more info on the problem. The CPU useage fluctuates between 4 and
38% in cyclical manner when Microsoft Office runs and the change in CPU
useage is only for Winword in the task manager.

 

[mpt]

That's an interesting problem. In the dinosaur days, I'd have wondered if
your cache file was sufficiently large causing excessive disk usage. Even
then, why just Word, which I am sure is not the only large software program
you use?

I don't think it's your autosave, as saving to disk does not take a lot of
time these days, unless you've got some huge doct you're working on.

The only thing useful I can suggest is to search the forums and MS Word
Knowledge Base for something related to a phenomenon that involves the
gradual, spontaneous increase in size of your Normal template.

It's the only spontaneous thing that occurs in my life these days but so far
it hasn't slowed down my particular Word operation.

All I can think of. Sorry.

Richard