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!

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!

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!