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Word 2003 performance
I am using MS Word 2003 on a new system and I find that when I use Word it is
constantly pausing every 20 seconds or so (with the hourglass). You can still type but the text will not come up until it finishes ( a couple seconds). The problem is so bad that when you are typing an envelope, the envelope window will actually blank out for a couple seconds. Very annoying. Memory shouldn't be an issue, I have 504mb of RAM. Can anyone help? |
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Try turning off the auto save feature or changing the setting to longer than
20 secs. "Richard" wrote: I am using MS Word 2003 on a new system and I find that when I use Word it is constantly pausing every 20 seconds or so (with the hourglass). You can still type but the text will not come up until it finishes ( a couple seconds). The problem is so bad that when you are typing an envelope, the envelope window will actually blank out for a couple seconds. Very annoying. Memory shouldn't be an issue, I have 504mb of RAM. Can anyone help? |
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This does not solve the problem. Thanks.
This problem does not seem to affect other office programs. "Jeff C" wrote: Try turning off the auto save feature or changing the setting to longer than 20 secs. "Richard" wrote: I am using MS Word 2003 on a new system and I find that when I use Word it is constantly pausing every 20 seconds or so (with the hourglass). You can still type but the text will not come up until it finishes ( a couple seconds). The problem is so bad that when you are typing an envelope, the envelope window will actually blank out for a couple seconds. Very annoying. Memory shouldn't be an issue, I have 504mb of RAM. Can anyone help? |
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If you are running Norton AntiVirus, disable its Office Plug-in. If that is
not the problem, try disabling "Check spelling as you type" (Tools | Options | Spellling & Grammar). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Richard" wrote in message ... I am using MS Word 2003 on a new system and I find that when I use Word it is constantly pausing every 20 seconds or so (with the hourglass). You can still type but the text will not come up until it finishes ( a couple seconds). The problem is so bad that when you are typing an envelope, the envelope window will actually blank out for a couple seconds. Very annoying. Memory shouldn't be an issue, I have 504mb of RAM. Can anyone help? |
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Thanks for the help,
I have tried disabling virus checkers, and disabling check spelling as I type. The problem still exsists. I am quite perplexed. This is not a slow machine, it has a 3Ghz processor, and yet I keep getting a wait (hourglass) for a couple seconds every 15-20 seconds. The label/envelope wizard is the worst, as the whole field goes blank for a couple seconds. I have tried disabling all sorts of startup services with no effect. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If you are running Norton AntiVirus, disable its Office Plug-in. If that is not the problem, try disabling "Check spelling as you type" (Tools | Options | Spellling & Grammar). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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