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10-14-2008, 07:47 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 5,880
|  MS Word XP takes forever to open document
I have a client that still uses MS Office Xp. All the other componants of Office works fine. However MS Word can take about 5 minutes to open up a word document that is stored locally on the hard drive. Things like Excel and Power Point opens up fine.
We have all ready re-installed Operating System.
Any other suggestions?
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10-14-2008, 07:56 PM
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I can't brain today Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 311
|  Re: MS Word XP takes forever to open document
How much RAM does the computer have, is it old?
How big is the file he is trying to open? Big files on old computers.... take ages with word.
Does it take 5 minutes to open word if just opening a new document?
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10-14-2008, 09:15 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: C:\Windows\System32 Posts: 25,658
| Re: MS Word XP takes forever to open document
Could be that the document is partially corrupted. Could be the size that affects it.
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10-15-2008, 09:57 AM
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True Techie Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 111
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Is it Windows vista or xp? I have noticed Word 2k and XP load very slow in vista. The only solution i found was to upgrade to office 2k3.
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10-15-2008, 10:09 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Kansas City Posts: 2,309
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Before opening Word check the processes in the device manager. See if there is a WINWORD process running w/o Word open. I've found that with some applications they won't close fully, causing issue on the next open. Sonic, Excel, and Word all do this from time to time on different machines. It doesn't make it to where the program won't open, just takes longer sometimes.
Weird i know, just try it out.
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10-15-2008, 10:11 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: C:\Windows\System32 Posts: 25,658
| Re: MS Word XP takes forever to open document
Office XP wont install on Vista. Not compatible. Office 2003 and Office 2007 are the only ones compatible with Vista. So it has to be XP.
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10-15-2008, 10:40 AM
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True Techie Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 111
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Mak;
I got office 2k to install fine on vista it just ran slow! I didnt have to jump through any hoops to do it either....
To see if its the file or office try OpenOffice.org Download it reads all Micro$oft office file formats
Last edited by Mak213; 10-15-2008 at 01:04 PM.
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10-15-2008, 11:06 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Kansas City Posts: 2,309
| Re: MS Word XP takes forever to open document
Also make sure all Windows and Office updates have been installed on the machine.
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10-15-2008, 01:05 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: C:\Windows\System32 Posts: 25,658
| Re: MS Word XP takes forever to open document
I bet you did. I am sure i could get Office 95 to install on Vista if i tried. But running it is a different story. You said yourself that it ran slow. They are only having issues with Word. If it was Office XP on Vista they would all run slow.
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10-15-2008, 01:55 PM
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True Techie Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 111
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Ok you have a point i dont know if excel ran slow or access the user was only complaining about word. | |
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