The virus scan message comes not from Word but from linked anti-virus
software. Checking of Word/Office documents can usually be deselected in the
AV program e.g. in Norton AV by turning off its Office Plug-in.

With some versions of the Norton product it may be necessary to unregister
the calling DLL by running the following command line from Windows Start
Run

regsvr32 /u "c:\program files\norton antivirus\officeav.dll"
or
regsvr32 /u "c:\program files\norton systemworks\norton
antivirus\officeav.dll"

Other AV apps eg the popular free ediition of Grisoft's AVG antivirus
software, require similar treatment.
In this instance:

regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Free\avgoff2k.dll"


--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


Spollock wrote:
I am having the same trouble referenced in a couple of other posts -
when i open documents in Word (especially large docs), it takes an
incredibly long time (up to 5 minutes) and the message "Word is
finishing analyzing your document" appears in the lower left corner.
One other problem that may or may not be related is that the new
document sometimes opens at the bottom of the stack of open documents
(in other words, it's below several other open word documents). It's
particularly problematic with large files.

Oddly, the problem occurs only for me when I use the desktop. When
the adminstrator logs in and opens Word and the same document (from
the same desktop) he doesn't get the problem. The Word program
itself also takes much longer to open when accessed through my user
account.

I do have Adobe Acrobat installed, but both the administrator account
and my user account have access to this and it doesn't affect it when
he logs on. This did not use to happen with this desktop - it's a new
machine (~2 months old) - although i can't recall if this started