This can be caused by Norton Anti Virus (uncheck the Office Add-in in NAV
Advanced options), out of date graphics card driver, out of date printer
driver, speech recognition is active or a third party app or add-in that is
eating up resources (use the Task Manager to see what else is running and
active whilst your are editing your doc.

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Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://word.mvps.org/

"LeNor" wrote in message
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: Hi, After opening my word document, it starts getting
: really slow after a short while after opening it. I type
: letters into the document and they won't appear right
: away. The same thing happens when I try to delete
: characters. They won't delete right away. The file is 374
: KB in size. I was told it may be the size of the file. Any
: suggestions. Thank you so much.