Just a thoutht... have you installed new fonts lately?
If you have lots of fonts it can slow things up considerably

Leigh Jennigs
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Charlie
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 2:52 AM
> Subject: [PCSOFT] Word 97
>
>
> Dear Listers:
>
> It seems that Word 97 has decided to rebel.  A text document may open up quickly but another which
> may include a jpeg hangs up much longer than usual.  Sometimes a plain text document can be slow
> opening. Creating a new page can take 15 seconds or longer- I just have to be patient.  Once I am in
> a document, every move seems to be labored.  Changing font size, changing font, changing alignment,
> minimizing or maximizing etc. can take much longer but at  other times everything is okay.  I've run
> scan disk, defrag, checked for viruses removed a lot of junk files, thinking I might discover
> something but to no avail.  The only other problem of significance is that frequently when trying to
> send e-mail, (such as this one) it gets stuck in the Outbox (Outlook Express) and can not be sent
> while another e-mail will go. When closing I get a message saying that I have a document in my
> Outbox "Do you want to send it now?" and when I click "yes" sometimes it will be sent and sometimes
> it will not.  I have received a message saying the "server has rejected the Sender's e-mail address"
> which seems very peculiar. But this problem, I am sure, is unrelated to Word 97.  I am running a
> Pentium II  MMX, 350 with 64MB RAM.  My 12 gig hard drive has 130 mb used.  If any of you have any
> thoughts on this and have the time to respond,  I really would appreciate it.  This Listserve
> provides a wonderful service.
> Thanx
> Charlie Marsh
>
>

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