On 16 Feb 2004, at 10:46, Dr. Trevor J. Hutley wrote: > 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 I'm not sure about this file in particular, but all the startup files are held in Microsoft Office X/Office/Startup within that directory is a folder for each application, with startup files in each. Hope that helps, Trevor -- Tarik