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Microsoft Word opens very slowly

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by procomsol

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When I click on a Word document, it takes about 5 minutes for Word 2007 to launch and open the document. If I first launch Word then click on File and Open, it launches and loads the file very quickly. No other file types or software exhibits this behavior. The system is a laptop running WinXP Home. I have tried a repair to Microsoft Office with no change.

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by shasca

Could be a full temp folder, or the default printer/driver.
2007 no longer uses the normal.dot in the same manner, which used to be the culprit. Are the documents stored locally on the hardrive?

by procomsol

The documents are stored locally. I have read elsewhere about the printer driver issue, I'll check that out tomorrow.

by procomsol

Many of the searches for this problem mentioned editing the "Application used to perform the action:" string by adding "%1" to the end of the string; this did, indeed, allow Word to launch and load the file just as it should in my circumstance. This edit had to be done for each Office file extension that was giving me problems. This tells me (I think) that it is a DDE problem, but I'm not sure how to correct the real problem. According to other posts in other forums, I'm not sure if re-installing Office will even correct the problem.

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