Workstation is running W2k with Off2k3 and I used to have a problem with it
opening Word files on the network. Took up to 1 min. to open a file. Found
out it was because Word didnt have any Workgroup template reference as I had
moved the templates to the new Win2k3 server. You have to set this up after
each new installation of Office/Word 2003. As soon as I added file reference
it worked fine.

Now Im having a problem suddenly it has become slow again even I havent
changed anything on the Office installation on the workstation.
Only thing I have done was to change the switch the workstation was hooked
up to to a newer managed switch...thats the only change Ive made which could
have coursed the slowing of opening the documents.

Any suggestions guys?

BTW - have tried adding in the registry ' EnableShellDataCaching ' but it
didnt make any difference!

PS...its _only_ a problem on docs which use the templates Ive made for my
network users...regular docs are not base on the template opens fine over the
network.