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Documents take long time to open in Word 2003
The problem is that when opening documents that has been created in word97 or
word 2000 it takes a long time to open them, several minutes. The documents are attached to different templates that are stored on a server. All the templates exists and are stored at the correct location. I've read in some other thread that when the templates are stored on a server it can take a long time to open them. But the same documents work fine to open in Word 2000! One solotion i've found is to, when the document finally opens, delete the path so that the document refers to the normal.dot. But this is not a very good soloution because it's several hundred documents. I am wondering if anyone have a soloution? -- Mathias |
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Documents take long time to open in Word 2003
The only other solution is to disconnect from the server.
-- 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. "Mathias" wrote in message ... The problem is that when opening documents that has been created in word97 or word 2000 it takes a long time to open them, several minutes. The documents are attached to different templates that are stored on a server. All the templates exists and are stored at the correct location. I've read in some other thread that when the templates are stored on a server it can take a long time to open them. But the same documents work fine to open in Word 2000! One solotion i've found is to, when the document finally opens, delete the path so that the document refers to the normal.dot. But this is not a very good soloution because it's several hundred documents. I am wondering if anyone have a soloution? -- Mathias |
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Documents take long time to open in Word 2003
I don't know if it's possible because we use over 100 templates on more than
1000 machines but thank you for your replys! The problem also is when receiving external documents that have attached templates to someone elses server it takes a long time too. -- Mathias "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macinto" skrev: One other solution is to copy the templates concerned to your User Templates folder on your local machine. If you place templates of the correct name in the top level of that folder, Word will use them immediately. If not, it then polls the network for six locations and waits for a time-out on each before concluding that the templates are not available. Cheers On 19/11/05 3:16 AM, in article , "Mathias" wrote: The problem is that when opening documents that has been created in word97 or word 2000 it takes a long time to open them, several minutes. The documents are attached to different templates that are stored on a server. All the templates exists and are stored at the correct location. I've read in some other thread that when the templates are stored on a server it can take a long time to open them. But the same documents work fine to open in Word 2000! One solotion i've found is to, when the document finally opens, delete the path so that the document refers to the normal.dot. But this is not a very good soloution because it's several hundred documents. I am wondering if anyone have a soloution? -- Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 |
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Documents take long time to open in Word 2003
Chances are you can simply save a blank document as a template and copy and
rename it to your template names and then deploy them temporarily. You could put an AutoOpen macro in the template to reattach the document to the local normal.dot template and save upon opening. Then, after you have opened each of your documents, you can discard the temporary templates. It is still a big job but can be done. I believe that there is a fix available from Microsoft if you contact them. I don't think it is available for download (or necessarily something that is desirable to have). -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Mathias" wrote in message ... I don't know if it's possible because we use over 100 templates on more than 1000 machines but thank you for your replys! The problem also is when receiving external documents that have attached templates to someone elses server it takes a long time too. -- Mathias "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macinto" skrev: One other solution is to copy the templates concerned to your User Templates folder on your local machine. If you place templates of the correct name in the top level of that folder, Word will use them immediately. If not, it then polls the network for six locations and waits for a time-out on each before concluding that the templates are not available. Cheers On 19/11/05 3:16 AM, in article , "Mathias" wrote: The problem is that when opening documents that has been created in word97 or word 2000 it takes a long time to open them, several minutes. The documents are attached to different templates that are stored on a server. All the templates exists and are stored at the correct location. I've read in some other thread that when the templates are stored on a server it can take a long time to open them. But the same documents work fine to open in Word 2000! One solotion i've found is to, when the document finally opens, delete the path so that the document refers to the normal.dot. But this is not a very good soloution because it's several hundred documents. I am wondering if anyone have a soloution? -- Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not me unless I ask you to. John McGhie Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 |
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