[Tom Willett[_2_]]

Ahh. Thanks for the heads up, Beth.

"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
: 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
: ...
: No, Worddoesn't run a virus scan. Your anti virus program does. Disable
: its
: Office scanning function.
: "Drew" wrote in message
: ...
: : 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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