Word 97 files are taking long time to open in XP + Word 2003

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1.Word 97 takes a long time to open

I have some documents with clipart that take a long time to open. Documents 
without clip art open fine. This problem just developed over the pass 2 
weeks, no changes have been made to my system. I checked for virus and 
spyware. Nothing seems to help.

2.Word 2000 takes a long time to open Word X file

Word X template is used to create a new simple text only Word
document. The new Word document is opened in Word 2000 under Windows
2000. It takes a long time to open and at the bottom of the screen
there is some blurb about virus scan being requested. I have Norton AV
2004 on the Windows 2000 machine, but the wierd thing is that as soon
as I click anywhere outside Word 2000 so that it loses focus and then
immediately click back on Word 2000 the slow document has now opened.
I do not have this problem with Word documents created in Word 2000
and viewed in Word 2000. Any ideas about what is in the Word X created
document that is slowing things down?

Of course, the Word X created document opens quickly in Word X.

Thanks,

Michael

3.Word 2003 takes a long time to open

When I first load up Word 2003 by double clicking an existing Word document 
it always takes ages - over a minute. Subsequent file opening times are 
normal. It only happens when starting Word for the first time. It's as if the 
file I'm clicking cannot associate with the application porgramme. It's not 
virus checking because I have this option turned off in NAV 2005. This is a 
new PC running XP Home SP2 and I haven't messed around with anything. Any 
ideas???

4.Word 2003 Taking a Long time to open documents

I have a user who was recently upgraded to Windows XP SP2 with Word 2003 
Professional - all service packs have been applied.  All other user's in her 
area are Windows 2000 Professional with Word 2000 - Again all service packs 
have been applied.

When my user attempts to open most Word / Excel (PowerPoint has not been 
tried) files it takes an excessively long time to open these files.  These 
files were created in versions of Word previous to 2003.

While opening these files there is very little CPU or memory usage - 
although Word stays not responding - there are two instances of Word until 
the document opens.  In several cases, I noted that one Word icon was a 
previous version and the second Word 2003.

I have attempted the following:

From Microsoft Document - Article ID : 830561 

I have attached both the tempate that the document uses; as well as 
Normal.dot - both have failed.  And the document reverted to the template 
that it was created from.

I have deleted the normal.dot

Deleted and re-added printers.

Ran Office repair

Machine is re-started every night

5.word files taking long time to open

Hello,
I have Office XP with SP-2 on win2000 Pro.

When I try to open some word documents that are located on a another server
on the network and in a couple of subfolders, it takes about 2 min to open a
small file. This problem suddenly occured, I thought it is a virus, but no.
I uninstalled Office and re-installed it again, but the problem still.

NB: If I opened MS Word, then I go to file open and brows the path, files
open very quickly.
I wonder what the problem is, but any help would be highly appreciated.
thank you

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