Word not responding

[Vicky]

A have a recurring but seemingly unpredictable problem with word (2003).
When I'm using word a lot, editing a number of files at once or editing a
large file a lot, I find that my computer slows down, the amount of memory my
computer is using goes up astronomically and finally word crashes to a halt
and stops responding. For ever more, when I open these files up on my
computer, these same files cause word to stop responding when they've been
opened for a few minutes, irrespective of how many documents i have open at
the time. Someone has suggested to me that my computer's RAM can't cope with
all that I'm asking of it, but when I open the same files on a computer with
significantly less RAM the problem isn't there. My computer has 196 MB of
RAM. Can anybody help?

 

[TF]

Clean out your computer of abandoned temp files, run a full ScanDisk and
follow up with a Defrag.

Check that you have the latest graphics and printer drivers and then test
again. See this FAQ for some guidance with this:
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm



:A have a recurring but seemingly unpredictable problem with word (2003).
: When I'm using word a lot, editing a number of files at once or editing a
: large file a lot, I find that my computer slows down, the amount of memory
my
: computer is using goes up astronomically and finally word crashes to a
halt
: and stops responding. For ever more, when I open these files up on my
: computer, these same files cause word to stop responding when they've been
: opened for a few minutes, irrespective of how many documents i have open
at
: the time. Someone has suggested to me that my computer's RAM can't cope
with
: all that I'm asking of it, but when I open the same files on a computer
with
: significantly less RAM the problem isn't there. My computer has 196 MB of
: RAM. Can anybody help?