Chris Olson typed this message on 3/18/05 2:23 PM: >> I tried to start MS Word last night and out of the blue it went >> through it's font optimization routine. And it took forever!!. Just >> then it hit me. I had messed around with some extra fonts..... > > Aha! I never thought of that one. In any case, it's a lot better than > a bad hard disk :-) > -- Trust Micro-snot to come up with a routine like that! Does anyone know if Apple Pages goes through a similar routine? It seems to start up in a hurry on my machine. jg