[Beth Melton]

There are some circumstances in which Word will tell you it's running a
virus scan (even though it's not actually running one) and it has nothing to
do with your virus scanner. They tie into the macro virus scanning engine in
order to scan a few old add-in types (.wll) for macros.

~Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

"Tom Willett" wrote in message
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No, Worddoesn't run a virus scan. Your anti virus program does. Disable
its
Office scanning function.
"Drew" wrote in message
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: When opening Word it takes a long time then when it opens it runs a
virus
: scan and takes about 15 minutes to open file. Do you have any
suggestions?
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