Hi Reader

I have exactly the same issue and whilst I'm not a MSVP, it seems Word
(2003) behaved nicely when I went to the Toolbar and put the display up on
top of the status bar. I hope that soothes your Word so that that you can
keep doing whatever important work you have to do without the constant
insanity-producing interruptions of "word is calculating your word count"
messages.

Jason.


"Jason Insearching1977" wrote:

> I have exactly the same situation!!! I too have spent many many hours and
> google can't help with the search. Please assist to save my sanity.
>
> "TDT Consulting" wrote:
>
> > I have who has Office Small Business XP. When she opens a document it starts
> > calculating word count and stops her from typing. When it's a large document
> > it is very slow and it continues over and over again. Very unproductive.
> > How do we turn this off or change it? Other systems in the office are
> > running XP Pro and do not have this problem. I have spent hours searching
> > for a solution. Please help!