[Robert]

Word launches actually much faster, almost instantaneously. So the benefits
are huge as far as I am concerned.
It so happened that Word 2007 was launching slower and slower at each new
run on my system.
Word 2007 might not be working as it is intended by MS but it is now
working to my satisfaction! What more would I want?

This said, I don¡¦t have any plug-in installed.
And I don¡¦t understand what might be causing this gradual and persistent
slow-down¡K
I can only think of what you suggested yourself, i.e. that some changes are
systematically saved each time I shut Word down. And they take more time to
load at each new run.

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On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:30:07 +0300, Graham Mayor wrote:

It might be faster, but it is now incapable of working as intended, so it
is a ridiculous idea.
If Word starts slowly, there is a good reason for it and that is usually to
do with add-ins (though Word 2003 will start slowly next time it is started
after saving a change to normal.dot)