Re: Microsoft Word and JFW
- From: "Terrill Reynolds" <terrill1@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 12:05:50 -0400
Hi:
You can also, quickly find it by, hit windows key + f for find and type
in normal.dot. set it to search your C drive and to look for hidden
files.
Warmest Regards,
Terrill Reynolds
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chip Orange" <Corange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 11:44 AM
Subject: RE: Microsoft Word and JFW
John,
The extension is D O T (as in tango) not D O C (as in charley). The
normal.dot is in your personal templates directory, not the templates
that come with word. The adobe add-on is only present if you have
purchased the full acrobat writer, not just the free reader. It's
somewhere in the MS Word program dir structure. Go to this area and
look for a dir named startup (mine is C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Office10\Startup) but it will vary depending on your version.
Another place for templates which run at startup is in your user profile
area (mine is C:\Documents and Settings\corange.PSC\Application
Data\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP but that will vary with your setup for login
preference and user id if any).
Finally, your normal.dot is in your templates dir (mine is C:\Documents
and Settings\corange.PSC\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates, again
this is in your user profile area and will vary on how your login is
setup).
Anything in these two startup directories, along with the normal.dot,
will all be loaded (and possibly run programs) when Word is first
started.
In addition to Word itself, it could of course be an
anti-virus/anti-spyware program scanning everything as it's opened, a
slow hard disk or one that needs defragging, or insufficient memory so
that you end up using virtual memory. If you're infected with Malware
already, this too can cause your system to run quite slowly (so a good
scan by something like spybot search and destroy is in order).
Sorry for the long list, but a lot of different things can make a large
program like Word run very slowly on your system.
hth,
Chip
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Chip Orange
Database Administrator
Florida Public Service Commission
Chip.Orange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(850) 413-6314
(Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not
necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service Commission.)
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of John Ramsey
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 10:56 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Microsoft Word and JFW
Hello Chip,
I used to know where the normal.doc was stored and I thought it
was in the templates folder but I cannot seem to find it anymore. Also,
do you know what the adobe plug in is that might cause this dreadful
problem? If so, what folder is it normally stored in? I will let you
know if I am able to fix the problem.
Take care,
John
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chip Orange
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:55 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Microsoft Word and JFW
Hi John,
A file called normal.dot, which Word opens each time it
is started, may have become corrupt. Find it and delete it (with Word
not running), and restart Word. This will automatically create a new
one.
Note that if you've written custom macros or styles they
are stored in this normal.dot, and this will cause you to lose them.
Most people don't, but if you did, you'll have to take steps to save
them first.
You could rename normal.dot instead of deleting it.
There are other Word add-ons which place .dot files into
a directory where Word automatically opens them upon startup; any of
these could be corrupt, or could be slowing Word down upon starting.
One that we've had trouble with is automatically installed as part of
the full Adobe suite. As someone else mentioned Norton installs another
one.
If you find any of these in a directory named startup,
you could rename them to see if that solves the problem.
Please let us all know if you find the answer.
Chip
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Chip Orange
Database Administrator
Florida Public Service Commission
Chip.Orange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(850) 413-6314
(Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author
and do not necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service
Commission.)
________________________________
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Ramsey
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 3:22 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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
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