I think this time the reason for no responses is that no one can think of
anything to help. I'm currently using Word 2003 with Word 97 docs and no
problems like you describe. I was using Word 2002 (XP) for about a year with
Word 97 docs - no problems.
Are the documents very long? Do they contain tables? Is track changes turned
on (with change markings not being displayed)? Are Versions turned on? Fast
saves? (None of these should be ordinarily and I don't think Fast Saves is
doc specific.)
I take it you don't have similar problems with new documents created in Word
2002.
Lengthy tables? Extensive cross-references?
What kind of horse-power does your computer have (processor speed, amount of
RAM). But this would cause problems with new documents as well...
An old document can be very slow opening if it can't find its template in a
network environment.
--
Charles Kenyon
See the MVP FAQ: <URL:
http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
--------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies
and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn
from my ignorance and your wisdom.
Tamarakay said:
Our company recently upgraded from office 97 to office XP and seem to have
problems with Word. Documents that were created in 97 act sluggish in XP.
For instance, if you hit return on your keyboard it can take anywhere from a
blink of a second to 10 seconds for the return to happen in word. This only
happens within documents created in 97. New documents created in XP work
very well. Any ideas where to start looking?
We've tried copying the text of the document and pasting into a new, blank
document in XP, but this doesn't work.
