We have upgraded to Office 2003 running on XP Prof. We found that documents
created on Office 2000 and being opened up in Word 2003 takes awfully long to
open. Should you select all text (Ctrl+A), copy to a new screen, save the
document. Close and open the new one up it appears instantly on your screen.
Any suggestions why this is happening? Really frustrating!!!!

Guesses: You are on a network. If a user logs off the network, the documents
open up quick.

The document is looking for its template and searching your entire network
for the template.

For each document:

Tools Templates and Addins

Attach the normal.dot template. Save with that attachment.
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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://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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We have upgraded to Office 2003 running on XP Prof. We found that
documents
created on Office 2000 and being opened up in Word 2003 takes awfully long
to
open. Should you select all text (Ctrl+A), copy to a new screen, save the
document. Close and open the new one up it appears instantly on your
screen.
Any suggestions why this is happening? Really frustrating!!!!

Thanx for the previous feedback. I also thought it was searching across the
network for the old template. Next question: How can I automate it to
automatically strip looking for the template which is no longer available and
link it to my new template. I have tried the following:
With ActiveDocument
.UpdateStylesOnOpen = True
.AttachedTemplate = "C:\templates\Normal.dot"
End With
in an AutoOpen macro which works beautifully apart from the fact that the
document still needs to be opened first and takes quite a while to open. Can
one not look at document properties before the document is opened and strip
the template at that point so that the document opens faster? However I think
"the attached template" is a built-in property? Hope you understand what I am
asking.

"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

Guesses: You are on a network. If a user logs off the network, the documents
open up quick.

The document is looking for its template and searching your entire network
for the template.

For each document:

Tools Templates and Addins

Attach the normal.dot template. Save with that attachment.
--
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://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn
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"Joey" wrote in message
...
We have upgraded to Office 2003 running on XP Prof. We found that
documents
created on Office 2000 and being opened up in Word 2003 takes awfully long
to
open. Should you select all text (Ctrl+A), copy to a new screen, save the
document. Close and open the new one up it appears instantly on your
screen.
Any suggestions why this is happening? Really frustrating!!!!