Microsoft word excel powerpoint not responding error

I recently went to 10.4.2 and also to office 2004. Not too happy about the switch so far as office products are even less stable than before. The (not responding) error happens most reliably when opening larger documents. Often the application will hang up before I can do anything with the document at all. Also, in the Force quit menu, the microsoft error reporting application will sometimes also be there and (not responding). By large files, I mean around 16Mb, so not really very big at all relative to memory.
Any ideas?
Thanks, Rob.

Hey! Same problem here. Was happening to me under Panther and continues under Tiger. The only thing that seems to help is to trash your Microsoft prefs file. I found this info on MSFTs site. It seems to keep this crashing problem away for a while. But it does keep coming back eventually. Really only happens to me with Word and the ironically the Microsoft Error Reporting app. Both always show up in the Force Quit screen as (not responding). You can find your prefs file in the Library under Preferences. Just throw the whole folder away then restart any Office app. Of course you'll lose all the customization you may have had with the Formatting Palette, etc. THIS IS A BIG HASSLE MICROSOFT!!!

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