Often, a comparison of the size of normal-old.dot and the new normal.dot will help – the smaller the new template is, compared to the old, the more likely it was that this was the problem. When the application does not find normal.dot, it will create one, uncorrupted, and with no special styles, layouts, or other settings. In Excel, this file used to be called something like “personal.xls”, but this name may have changed in versions after 2003.įor MS Word solution a), look in the folder “C:Documents and settingsApplication dataMicrosoftTemplates”, or find normal.dot by a search of the hard disk, and rename it, perhaps to something like “normal-old.dot”. Over time, this file can either become corrupted, and/or grow to such a size that it can slow down the application. If Word starts as you expected, then the problem was most likely caused by one of two things:Ī) The default template is corrupt, or too big to load quickly, orīy default, MS Word launches with a blank document, with settings contained in a file named “normal.dot”, and when you close Word, this file gets rewritten. Kind of like what happens when you start a PC in “Safe Mode”. The “/a” indicates that Word should start with no add-ins or templates.
These are all good suggestions, but there are at least two more that would explain the slow startup and shutdown behavior.Īs a first step, launch MS Word at the command line, with “winword.exe /a”. (Transcript lightly edited for readability.) Microsoft Office?” That should have instructions for doing that repair. The article that I point you at is “ How do I repair I don’t have a clear answer for you but that’s direction that I would head. Might clear up whatever it is that’s kind-of getting in the way of startups and That should reinstall the software in such a way that it The only other thing that really comes to mind would be to perform a repair Lastly, the only other thing that really comes to mind… there’s nothing Word or Excel) that is taking more time to get started or shut down. Maybe you’ve recently installed an add-in of some sort to Office (or to The first thing that comes to mind is potentially: add-ins.
Obviously if you’re attempting to access a network connection that no longerĮxists, it takes time for the software to realize that it’s not gonna connectĪnd that can happen at start up for certain things. So a network is certainly the first thing that came to mind – because Suddenly opening and shutting down slowly. Answercast #87, I look at an odd case where Microsoft Office programs are
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