I have read the MVPS page about Word starting up slow and things, but it
didn't quite help. When I renamed the Normal.dot file to Normal.old, Word
started up licket-split. However, when I closed it and tried again, it was
back to its old behavior, with a new Normal.dot file. Why is Word broken?
Even after a reinstall?!

Sounds like you have an addin that is getting in the way. Or maybe too
many TEMP files?

Check out these two articles and see if this helps.

Add-ins...One of Word's Most Common Problems
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/P...cle.asp?ID=282

Maintaining Your Computer
http://www.mousetrax.com/maintain.html

Hope this helps. Good luck!

Dian D. Chapman, Technical Consultant
Microsoft MVP, MOS Certified
Editor/TechTrax Ezine

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On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 18:53:01 -0800, ?B?c3dtbW5n?=
wrote:

I have read the MVPS page about Word starting up slow and things, but it
didn't quite help. When I renamed the Normal.dot file to Normal.old, Word
started up licket-split. However, when I closed it and tried again, it was
back to its old behavior, with a new Normal.dot file. Why is Word broken?
Even after a reinstall?!

Re-installing rarely does anything useful. It is the associated files and
applications that are the problem.
I don't know which web pages you referred to, but the ones that you want are
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...peningWord.htm and
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm
Also if running Norton AV, uncheck its Office plug-in.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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




swmmng wrote:
I have read the MVPS page about Word starting up slow and things, but
it didn't quite help. When I renamed the Normal.dot file to
Normal.old, Word started up licket-split. However, when I closed it
and tried again, it was back to its old behavior, with a new
Normal.dot file. Why is Word broken? Even after a reinstall?!