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Default Word and Norton

Yes - just the plug-in, which does nothing useful.
Norton puts its messy footprints all over the application and causes a
variety of problems to slow things down. A particularly irritating one is
that it causes windows to be opened behind the active window locking Word
until you discover the cause of the lock-up. Get rid of it!

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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aalaan wrote:
Will that just disable the Office plug-in and leave the rest of the
Norton process working correctly?

And could you be very kind and remind me briefly what problems are
caused to Word if I don't do this.


"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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With some versions of the Norton product it may be necessary to
unregister the calling DLL by running the following command line
from Windows Start Run

regsvr32 /u "c:\program files\norton antivirus\officeav.dll"
or
regsvr32 /u "c:\program files\norton systemworks\norton
antivirus\officeav.dll"


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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


aalaan wrote:
Hi. It's often been said in this ng that the Norton add-in is
responsible for much grief in Word, so one should disable it by
right clicking on the systray icon, clicking on the Option button,
then Misc, then clear the Enable Office plug-in check box.

Well, I installed Word 2003 for an editing client yesterday and
there was no option button, only display options...

Any ideas?