I am running office XP on 2003 Presario Notebook 1.7
Centrino processor with 512 RAM.

Whenever I use Word now the CPU shoots up to 100% usage,
which causes the fan to fun at full speed constantly, and
quickly drains the battery.

When I shut down Word, the CPU usage goes down to about
8%.

Does anyone have any idea what is causing Word to take up
so much of the CPU, or what I can do to fix the problem?

Thanks much for any ideas.