Word is taking 20 seconds to open and same to close. This began
spontaneously. It worked OK for a long time.
I have been on the MVP site and tried the solutions there, as follows:

- I started with Run Winword.exe /a and Word started immediately
- I tried to look for dot file in the Word Startup folder but the folder
seems to be empty. I made sure files were not hidden.
- I deleted Normal.dot but this didnt help
- I renaming other .dot files to .old but gave up after about 10 (there are
lots of Works templates)
- I disabled the relevant Norton plug in
- I deleted the reg key HKEY_Current_User/Softeware/Microsoft
Office/10.0/Word/Data. This didnt help either.
- I reinstalled Word. Again did not help.

MS Support got me to delete some addins (installed by progs supplied with
digital camera) and this reduced dealy for a while but crept back up. I only
have the Works Addin now.


Any ideas?