Word and Endnote together slow down my computer

[Guest]

Hi
This is a problem I am having since I upgraded to Office 2003, but I had the same problem with XP, but not with 2000. When I am working with large documents (> 20 pages) with Word and Endnote, my computer slows down a LOT. When I try to close, the program freezes and I have to end the task of Word. This only happens when I am using Endnote together with Word

Please help, I am in grad school and I need to write lots of large research papers!

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Endnote places it's Cite While You Write add-in in the Word Startup folder.
Sometimes this causes problems. You can check the Endnote site to see if
they have any patches or what they say about compatibility of your version
of Endnote and Word. The site has pretty good info and they've been known
to respond to messages submitted about technical problems. Also check
whether you might have other add-ins that are conflicting with Endnote--this
sounds like a problem that is unique to your computer, not a known bug. In
fact, is it possible that you have some corrupt documents? Does it always
happen on the same documents? Documents from the same template?

Turning off Instant Formatting (in recent versions of Endnote) might
conceivably help.

Even if you have to remove the CWYW add-in, Endnote can still be used to
format documents even without it.

DM

 

[Guest]

well windows xp uses a rediculas amount of memory compared to 200
as does word 2003, they are simply poorly written programs when it comes to memor

i would recommend that you use a less memory intensive word processing progra

one that comes to mind is OpenOffice, you can create and work with MS word document
interchangably abd the programs layout and features are quite simmilar to wor
best of all its FREE

you can get it her
http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.1/index.html