On 2/12/04 12:37 AM, "T Molnar" <tam at em.ca> wrote: > > Hi all, > I recently installed microsoft word (office) in to my tibook running > the latest updates of panther. > Things worked fine for about a week. > Now every once in a while I am getting the "spinning disc" that never > terminates. > I have let the disk spin for up to 20 minutes thinking it might just > actually finish whatever it was doing. > Killing word's prefs is a good idea. They are in your library->preferences->microsoft. I've found that many of Word's problems can be traced back to fonts. You might want to check the health of your fonts. Also, once you get Word running you might want to turn off the gallery at open. david =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mac OS X. Because making Unix user-friendly is easier than debugging Windows.