At 7:34 PM -0600 2/12/04, Macintosh info wrote: >Some things I've noticed that can help Word go faster or crash less: > >1) Acrobat 6 Professional places a .dot file in Word's startup items folder >that yields a PDF creation toolbar in Word after it starts up. It causes >Word to load slower than molasses in January. Delete this .dot file and >don't let Acrobat restore it. where exactly is this file? It sounds like something I want to get rid of. Is it the file PDFMaker.dot that you mean ? Trevor