Are you by any chance using Norton? I know Norton has an office plug-in that really slows down the speed of Word, so you could disable that if that's an issue. Take care. -- Julie Morales Email & Windows/MSN Messenger: mercy421@xxxxxxxxxxx Skype mercy0421 AIM mercylab421 http://juliemorales.avonrepresentative.com/ Currently in Winchester Regional, Virginia Overcast, Light Rain 69°F Wind:W-260° at 8mph Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint. - Mark Twain ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Ramsey" <stephnjohnny211@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 3:22 PM Subject: Microsoft Word and JFW Hello Again, I am also having a strange problem with Microsoft Word 2002 on my desktop where I am running XP Home edition and JFW 8.0. Word takes at least one minute or longer to open and close. It does this from an existing document or if I open Word from the desktop. I also have a laptop with Word 2002 and XP home with JFW 7.1 on it and Word opens and closes with ease. I have 2gb of ram on the desktop and only 512mb on the laptop and both are Pentium 4 processors, so there is no major differences in processor performance. Does anyone have any ideas on how to speed this up? Take care, John -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx