Microsoft Office 2008 with Snow Leopard

MS Office 2008 is giving start up problems after upgrading to SL. How to solve these issues ?
Thanks

I was having horrendous startup times for Word 2008 v12.2.3 on my MacBook Pro running 10.6.2. From some other hints, I thought that the culprit might be font related, so I fired up the Font Book application. I chose the "All Fonts" collection, selected all of the fonts shown, and then ran "Validate Fonts" in the File menu. I had a slew of bad fonts and duplicates, many of them from MS. I trashed the bad ones, and removed the duplicates so that all fonts were in /Library/Fonts. Note that I found an MS folder in /Library/Fonts with many duplicates; I trashed the folder after making sure all the fonts were found in /Library/Fonts.
Now my MS Word startup is down from 30 seconds or so to 1 second or less! Woohoo!!

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