Office for Mac 2011 very slow

Since upgrading to Mountain Lion shortly after it came out, Office for Mac 2011 has become a real pain to use. I can use Excel or Word once without a problem, however, after that opening another Office document takes about ten minutes or will not open at all. Closing and reopening Office does not fix it either. I must completely restart my iMac.
I have been thru all the Forum threads I can find and implemented them. These include deleting problem fonts from the Font Book and reinstalling Office. I still have the problem.
All updates are current.
If anyone has other ideas how to fix this, I would greatly appreciate comments.
Thanks.

I discovered I had bookmarked the Microsoft Knowledge Base Article #2398768, the same one you referenced above. Since I bookmarked it I am pretty sure I used the process.
Among my numerous efforts to fix my Office problems I definitely ran "Remove Office 2011 Uninstaller.pkg" which I downloaded and still have. It was supposed to remove all elements of the Office install but had the usual caveat that there was no guarantee. It is remotely possible I discovered the Knowledge Base Article later and just bookmarked it for future reference.
I believe the whole process took almost two hours on my last effort. This was largely due to the reinstall recommendation of rebooting after installing every Office update.
I don't know, I guess I will try the Knowledge Base article process on the small chance that I did not do it already. I need to do something because based on how I use Office the current slow load/no load problem is a real issue for me.

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Process:
Microsoft Excel [800]
Path:
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft Excel.app/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Excel
Identifier:
com.microsoft.Excel
Version:
Build Info:
Unknown-141003~0
Code Type:
X86 (Native)
Parent Process:
??? [1]
Responsible:
Microsoft Excel [800]
User ID:
501
Date/Time:
2014-11-02 12:06:46.841 -0500
OS Version:
Mac OS X 10.10 (14A389)
Report Version:
11
Anonymous UUID:
8A55B2C7-7F03-CE6B-81C2-E5DC23FD3726
Time Awake Since Boot: 2400 seconds
Crashed Thread:
0
Exception Type:
EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes:
0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
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dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: @rpath/OfficeWindowLocalizer.framework/Versions/14/OfficeWindowLocalizer
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Reason: Incompatible library version: Microsoft Excel requires version 14.0.50 or later, but OfficeWindowLocalizer provides version 14.0.40
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We installed Yosemite on a test machine to check for problems. Office 2011 for Mac ran and still does run fine on that machine with Yosemite.
As a result we installed Yosemite on our main machines. At the same time we updated Office for Mac 2011 using the latest update 14.4.7. It was at this point that Office started crashing every time a document was opened.
Solution that worked for us.
1 Using Font Book (comes with your Mac) we removed all duplicate fonts. We selected the automatically remove option.
2 Restart computer.
3 Shut down computer.
4 Restart computer in 'safe boot' to do this:
a) Shut down the computer.
b) Press the power button.
c) Immediately after hearing start-up tone, hold down SHIFT key.
d) Release SHIFT key after Apple logo and progress indicator appears.
e) Once computer has opened, restart the computer without holding down any keys.
5 Hopefully all should be ok now. Your machine might run a little slow for a while as it rebuilds caches etc but all ours were back at full speed after a few minutes.
Best Wishes
Bob

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I then went back to prefs and set the compatability dropdown from 'Custom' (where it had defaulted) to 'Word 2004-2007', assuming these docs were created from a recent past Windows.
I 'Saved As' a Word for Mac " .docm "
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