RH7/Word 2001

We recently installed RH7 as an upgrade to our previous
version (X5). We are running an older version of Word (2001) and
Office XP. When I try to compile it, it is taking forever, if it
compiles at all. It is happening with all the projects I have tried
and has been this way since the upgrade. Does anyone have any
suggestions on how to fix this?
Thanks,
Andrea

samariliak,
The symbol for a file can be changed by a clean instal of software. An upgrade will even change the icon for files created by older versions of the software, creating confusion. You see a new icon on a ten year-old file and think it is new. A blank or generic icon is created when files are recovered after a crash.
Installing fewer features will let you load faster. Word 2001 is much better behaved than Office 2004 which is guaranteed to crash OS X when you copy and paste muti formatted items from the web and paste them into Appleworks. All these decades and they still have not created a reliable cut and paste routine.
Microsoft is good at creating planned obsolescence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence) so be prepared for buying an upgrade to make the original work.
Ji˜m

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