[John]

Word 2007 SP1

XP Pro SP2



Problem: Word is preparing to go to this link.



When I click the first time on a link in a Word document, Word takes 20 seconds to bring up the link in the browser. The browser is already running. You can see the progression bar in the status bar moving slowly with the message that "Word is preparing to go to this link." Why is it so slow for the first link? Thank you for the feedback.