Microsoft Word 2003 opening documents EXTEREMLY slow...   

I am at my wits end with this. 
I just purchased a brand new Dell computer (Windows XP), and Word opens fine 
if it's a blank document or just starting Word itself. If I try to open a 
document, it takes 5-10 minutes to open it, if at all. 

I HAVE ALREADY TRIED THE FOLLOWING:

1.) Go to Control Panel, Folder Options, File Types, scroll down to and 
select (DOC for Word files) or XLS (for Excel files), click Advanced, 
select Open entry, click the edit Button.
Now uncheck "Use DDE" and then put your cursor in the Application box, 
arrow all the way to the right and put in "%1" (include the quote 
marks), IF there is /dde remove it. Then OK your way out. Things should
work quickly again.
2.) Un-installing/re-installing Microsoft Office 2003
3.) Deleting Normal.dot

NONE OF THESE WORKED!!!

Please help, I am greatly distressed by this because I do a lot of work in 
Word 2003 and am quite angry by this problem.

Thank you!!

date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 12:51:02 -0700   author:   MoMo

Re: Microsoft Word 2003 opening documents EXTEREMLY slow...   

Disconnect Network Drive... Right click My Computer.

-- 
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com

"MoMo"  wrote in message 
news:75C28181-3E11-426F-BF79-13E03C39771C@microsoft.com...
>I am at my wits end with this.
> I just purchased a brand new Dell computer (Windows XP), and Word opens fine
> if it's a blank document or just starting Word itself. If I try to open a
> document, it takes 5-10 minutes to open it, if at all.
>
> I HAVE ALREADY TRIED THE FOLLOWING:
>
> 1.) Go to Control Panel, Folder Options, File Types, scroll down to and
> select (DOC for Word files) or XLS (for Excel files), click Advanced,
> select Open entry, click the edit Button.
> Now uncheck "Use DDE" and then put your cursor in the Application box,
> arrow all the way to the right and put in "%1" (include the quote
> marks), IF there is /dde remove it. Then OK your way out. Things should
> work quickly again.
> 2.) Un-installing/re-installing Microsoft Office 2003
> 3.) Deleting Normal.dot
>
> NONE OF THESE WORKED!!!
>
> Please help, I am greatly distressed by this because I do a lot of work in
> Word 2003 and am quite angry by this problem.
>
> Thank you!!

date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 05:46:35 -0400   author:   Mary Sauer

Re: Microsoft Word 2003 opening documents EXTEREMLY slow...   

I have the same problem with all Office 2007 products and have also tried all 
the "standard" actions as MoMo has. I have no network drives to disconnect. 
My PC is becomimg almost unusable.
From searches I find that this problem is very common but the standard 
response is to disable DDE or unmap network drives. Any other suggestions?

"Mary Sauer" wrote:

> Disconnect Network Drive... Right click My Computer.
> 
> -- 
> Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
> http://office.microsoft.com/
> http://msauer.mvps.org/
> news://msnews.microsoft.com
> 
> "MoMo"  wrote in message 
> news:75C28181-3E11-426F-BF79-13E03C39771C@microsoft.com...
> >I am at my wits end with this.
> > I just purchased a brand new Dell computer (Windows XP), and Word opens fine
> > if it's a blank document or just starting Word itself. If I try to open a
> > document, it takes 5-10 minutes to open it, if at all.
> >
> > I HAVE ALREADY TRIED THE FOLLOWING:
> >
> > 1.) Go to Control Panel, Folder Options, File Types, scroll down to and
> > select (DOC for Word files) or XLS (for Excel files), click Advanced,
> > select Open entry, click the edit Button.
> > Now uncheck "Use DDE" and then put your cursor in the Application box,
> > arrow all the way to the right and put in "%1" (include the quote
> > marks), IF there is /dde remove it. Then OK your way out. Things should
> > work quickly again.
> > 2.) Un-installing/re-installing Microsoft Office 2003
> > 3.) Deleting Normal.dot
> >
> > NONE OF THESE WORKED!!!
> >
> > Please help, I am greatly distressed by this because I do a lot of work in
> > Word 2003 and am quite angry by this problem.
> >
> > Thank you!! 
> 
> 
>

date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:33:03 -0700   author:   Fat Freddies Cat Fat Freddies

RE: Microsoft Word 2003 opening documents EXTEREMLY slow...   

I have tried all trick as well but none worked. However I worked out that the 
reason that Word files and excel  do not load fast enough is a memory 
allocation problem:

So here is what you can do:

go to

>control panel
>performance and maitenance
>system
>advanced
>performance
>settings
>advanced
then click "change"  at the VIRTUAL MEMORY

click custom size and say put 50 in the initial size and 4000 in the maximum.

No you can click back all the way to your desktop. (you might need to 
restart but it seems to be working very well even without restart)

This i basically overiding the automatic system memory allocation which it 
seems it is not very clever.

Let me know your results.






"MoMo" wrote:

> I am at my wits end with this. 
> I just purchased a brand new Dell computer (Windows XP), and Word opens fine 
> if it's a blank document or just starting Word itself. If I try to open a 
> document, it takes 5-10 minutes to open it, if at all. 
> 
> I HAVE ALREADY TRIED THE FOLLOWING:
> 
> 1.) Go to Control Panel, Folder Options, File Types, scroll down to and 
> select (DOC for Word files) or XLS (for Excel files), click Advanced, 
> select Open entry, click the edit Button.
> Now uncheck "Use DDE" and then put your cursor in the Application box, 
> arrow all the way to the right and put in "%1" (include the quote 
> marks), IF there is /dde remove it. Then OK your way out. Things should
> work quickly again.
> 2.) Un-installing/re-installing Microsoft Office 2003
> 3.) Deleting Normal.dot
> 
> NONE OF THESE WORKED!!!
> 
> Please help, I am greatly distressed by this because I do a lot of work in 
> Word 2003 and am quite angry by this problem.
> 
> Thank you!!

date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:13:02 -0700   author:   KingAristos

Re: Microsoft Word 2003 opening documents EXTEREMLY slow...   

Stop your computer automatically managing its virtual memory see my reply 
above.

Hope this helps you



 

"Fat Freddies Cat" wrote:

> I have the same problem with all Office 2007 products and have also tried all 
> the "standard" actions as MoMo has. I have no network drives to disconnect. 
> My PC is becomimg almost unusable.
> From searches I find that this problem is very common but the standard 
> response is to disable DDE or unmap network drives. Any other suggestions?
> 
> "Mary Sauer" wrote:
> 
> > Disconnect Network Drive... Right click My Computer.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
> > http://office.microsoft.com/
> > http://msauer.mvps.org/
> > news://msnews.microsoft.com
> > 
> > "MoMo"  wrote in message 
> > news:75C28181-3E11-426F-BF79-13E03C39771C@microsoft.com...
> > >I am at my wits end with this.
> > > I just purchased a brand new Dell computer (Windows XP), and Word opens fine
> > > if it's a blank document or just starting Word itself. If I try to open a
> > > document, it takes 5-10 minutes to open it, if at all.
> > >
> > > I HAVE ALREADY TRIED THE FOLLOWING:
> > >
> > > 1.) Go to Control Panel, Folder Options, File Types, scroll down to and
> > > select (DOC for Word files) or XLS (for Excel files), click Advanced,
> > > select Open entry, click the edit Button.
> > > Now uncheck "Use DDE" and then put your cursor in the Application box,
> > > arrow all the way to the right and put in "%1" (include the quote
> > > marks), IF there is /dde remove it. Then OK your way out. Things should
> > > work quickly again.
> > > 2.) Un-installing/re-installing Microsoft Office 2003
> > > 3.) Deleting Normal.dot
> > >
> > > NONE OF THESE WORKED!!!
> > >
> > > Please help, I am greatly distressed by this because I do a lot of work in
> > > Word 2003 and am quite angry by this problem.
> > >
> > > Thank you!! 
> > 
> > 
> >

date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:17:00 -0700   author:   KingAristos