Typing in MS Word 5.1a very slow on Tiger

My wife is the owner of an iMac DV 400 MHz (1999) with 640M of RAM. Until recently, she had been using MS Word 5.1a (French version) without any problem in the Classic environment of Mac OS X 10.3.9 “Panther”. A few days ago, I decided to install Mac OS X 10.4.10 “Tiger” on her old iMac, with all the most recent updates. The installation was successful, and everything goes perfectly well with the new operation system, except for MS Word 5.1a in the Classic environment.
There is just one problem, but it is a very annoying one: typing has become very slow, just like if the computer was occupied with some other very demanding task, like printing or checking spelling or grammar at the same time (which is not the case). I have tried everything I could to solve the problem (and I am a very experienced user), without any success.
Any idea?

I have seen the problem like this,too
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