<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Actually, I think two people have already offered suggestions on what you can do. One person suggested checking your fonts and repairing permissions (somebody else posted helpful links along these lines). The other person prefers a different course of action, but you should be able to find both suggestions in the thread and choose for yourself.<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Aug 6, 2007, at 9:35 PM, Kenneth T. Bruseth wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Word really starts up slow. It takes so long that I hesitate to start it, and once started, I abstain from quitting it just in case I need it again. Is there anything that I can do to increase the startup speed of this lumbering giant?</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>