[Word 2003 very slow when opening documents]

I ran into this today and after some searching around I found this thread on the microsoft site.

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsg...f3-67fdc7a0e70c

The last post contained the solution that worked for me - I've copied the material below. I did this for both Word (.DOC) and Excel (.XLS).

Regards,

Steve

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Go to the Control Panel, Folder Options, File Types. Highlight XLS

extension and then click Advanced. Click Open from the list, and then click

Edit. Add "%1" (quotes are needed) to the end of the Application used

string (which will be /e for the Excel XLS extension.) Also uncheck the DDE

box. This strategy resolved my problems for Excel and for Word. I did not

come up with this solution myself...I found it on the Excel 2007 forum and I

have included a copy of that post below. Thanks Starksnet!

Best Wishes,

Jim

23 Jan 2007, 10:48 PM UTC

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This help for me...

When you double click on a excel file in explorer it's just waiting and when

you push the office button at the left top corner it opens, correct?

If this is your problem then you have to add the following to the file types

properties "%1" (also the quotes are necessary)

So open explorer -> Tools -> Folder Options -> File Types

got to the .XL?? extension click Advanced select the bold action -> Edit and

in the box under "Application used..." go to the end and add the "%1" after

the /e

so for the .XLSX Extensions Open command this becomes "<Installation

Folder>\Microsoft Office\Office12\EXCEL.EXE" /e "%1"

When it's the new action it should be "<Installation Folder>\EXCEL.EXE /e

"%1" /n

Did that for all the default actions of all Excel file types and now it

doesn't give me any problems anymore, didn't tried it yet for the other

applications cause they don't give me problems...

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