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Microsoft Word Hangs On Opening Documents

#1 McStick

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Posted 17 September 2008 - 09:45 AM

When I try and open a saved document, the window freezes and stops responding. After about 5 minutes, it corrects itself and Microsoft Word opens, however not the document, which takes another few minutes to load. What is causing this? I have tried opening documents in Powerpoint and they work okay so it just seems to be Word 2007 that the problem is with.

#2 FrankOtheMountaiN

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Posted 17 September 2008 - 10:15 AM

Did you try to uninstall office and re-install?

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Posted 17 September 2008 - 10:28 AM

What happens if you have Word07 open and then pull up the .doc file from there?
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#4 McStick

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Posted 17 September 2008 - 10:50 AM

jgweed, on Sep 17 2008, 10:28 AM, said:

What happens if you have Word07 open and then pull up the .doc file from there?
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John

Word 07 opens fine from the start menu etc and then when I open the document from file, open etc, that works fine too. So it just seems to be when I open the files from My Documents etc. Is this actually a problem with xp then, rather than Word?