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Word 2003 opens slowly
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 |
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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. ************ Hope it helps! Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Laura R" wrote in message news 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 |
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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. ************ Hope it helps! Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Laura R" wrote in message news 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 |
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Great!
************ Hope it helps! Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Laura R" wrote in message ... 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. ************ Hope it helps! Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Laura R" wrote in message news 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 |
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OFC 2003 opens slowly
Hi There,
I have a new PC with OFC 2003 basic and word, excel open slowly and take a long time just to view the properties....I have repaired and reinstalled office and to no avail....I have one template that is used but this is slow on all M$ apps related files.. Any clues on where to dig ? Thanks Mark |
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See:
http://www.officearticles.com/word/m...me_to_open.htm ************ Hope it helps! Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Mark Buchanan" Mark wrote in message ... Hi There, I have a new PC with OFC 2003 basic and word, excel open slowly and take a long time just to view the properties....I have repaired and reinstalled office and to no avail....I have one template that is used but this is slow on all M$ apps related files.. Any clues on where to dig ? Thanks Mark |
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Mark
One more thing that I did that helped open Word faster is on the link that Anne had below. Go to My Computer, tools, folder options, view, and release the hidden files. Do a search for normal.dot - looking in hidden files as well. When the normal.dot file comes up, rename it abnormal.dot. Hope it helps. I'm optimistic that my Word files will keep opening quickly now...this has been really frustrating. Laura "Mark Buchanan" wrote: Hi There, I have a new PC with OFC 2003 basic and word, excel open slowly and take a long time just to view the properties....I have repaired and reinstalled office and to no avail....I have one template that is used but this is slow on all M$ apps related files.. Any clues on where to dig ? Thanks Mark |
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Hi Anne,
I have been trying everything to get word to open faster. Updated office 97 to office 2003. Works gret on laptop, slow on desktop. I have two STARTUP folders: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office & C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11. Do I need both of these? The .dot within these a A20MSW00.DOT & AddrFixr.dot. Do I need these? Thanks for you help. -- Marshal Sudrala "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. ************ Hope it helps! Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Laura R" wrote in message news 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 |
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Hi Marshal,
You might also want to check your Normal.dot template - it's probably in your C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates directory. If it's less than 100K, Word should open very quickly. I was having the same problem with Word 2003 taking forever to open. I took Anne Troy's advice and deleted a PDFWriter and Data Viz entry from my startup folder, but this didn't do the trick. I checked the size of my Normal.dot template and found it to be almost 2.5Mb. It was huge compared to an older version that I had a copy of which was only 80K. I deleted it and renamed the older version to Normal.dot and started up Word again. I couldn't believe how fast it came up....lightening fast. Guess over the years I have added a whole bunch of crap to my startup template that I really didn't need. Hope this helps. - Mark "MarshalS" wrote: Hi Anne, I have been trying everything to get word to open faster. Updated office 97 to office 2003. Works gret on laptop, slow on desktop. I have two STARTUP folders: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office & C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11. Do I need both of these? The .dot within these a A20MSW00.DOT & AddrFixr.dot. Do I need these? Thanks for you help. -- Marshal Sudrala "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. ************ Hope it helps! Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Laura R" wrote in message news 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 |
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