What's the Fastest RAM that I Can Add?

[JorgeA]

I second BlouBul's advice.

Hey dencorso,

Great that you got the chance to pop in!

BlouBul's advice is sensible. Getting a faster CPU would speed things up, but it wouldn't cut the loading time by nearly as much as a version of Word that's not so loaded down with background processing.

It's odd that nobody seems to have complained about this, and (especially) that so few tests appear to have been run to compare the performance of Word 2007 with earlier versions. In my Web research, most of the complaints about slow loading in Word seemed to have to do with particular program settings or corruption in the individual document, with (as far as I could tell) little focus on this issue that seems to be "built into" Word 2007. Now that we have a hypothesis, when I get the chance to I'll do research based on that, and see if anybody other than that Open Office guy ever reported the same problem.

--JorgeA