Do you per chance have MacAfee antivirus installed? I had a similar problem
with some other applications. By replacing the antivirus with the Norton
product, the problems went away. If you do have some antivirus running, try
disabling it and see what happens.

Another possibility is that some component of office is located on a
marginal area of the hard disk and you are getting many read errors in
loading. No error message is displayed till an 'excessive' number of errors
occurs, but there will be a slowdown. Just some ideas. If it is the hard
disk, you could try doing a disk check (spinrite comes to mind, but you
could first try scandisk). Good luck.

Peter Shkabara
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-----Original Message-----
The problem that I am facing is a mega slowdown down when I open office
documents.  Since last weekend, it takes me up to 20 seconds to get a word
or excell document up on screen.  During that time the machine is unusable
as nothing works.  The only cvhanges that I made are adding some more fonts
Nicki Gemmell


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