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Laura R
 
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Default Word 2003 opens slowly

Thank you. That was the one step I forgot. Both those items were in there
and I deleted them, and now it opens like a charm!

Laura

"Anne Troy" wrote:

Laura: Check your Startup folder.
(I always do a Windows file/folder search for "Startup" and then determine
which one is Office. Open only FOLDERS and look for those files and remove
them. I hate PDFWriter and I don't think it'll work right in Word 2003
anyway, and I don't know what the dvzw... is something called Documents To
Go, which I've never heard of. If you're not using them, remove them.
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Hope it helps!
Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

"Laura R" wrote in message
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I just updated to Microsoft Office 2003. My fiiles are so slow to open. I
read posts, and disconnected my Norton antivirus, which helped with Excel
opening quicker. Word is still slow.

When I open Word through Run: winword.exe /a Word opens very quickly.
I
notice under templates and add-ins when I open it through "run" that the
boxes are not checked for DVZWDAddin.dot and PDFwriter97.dot, which I
believe
is why it's opening so quickly that way.

When I open Word not through "run" but just by clicking on the icon on my
desktop, the two boxes above are checked, and it takes forever to open any
Word document. I can't seem to remove those two from the template.

I have saved a new template as normal.old or normal.2, but I can't get
Word
to default to open one of those instead of normal, which has the two boxes
checked. When I go to my template folder on C drive, "normal" is not
there.
So how do I delete the normal folder and get my Word program to open under
my
new template that does not have those two boxes checked?

Any ideas? Thanks

Laura