Word 2007 Issue - Slow Opening Files

Hi,
I'm hoping someone else here has had or recognizes the issue I'm having.
When I open a file in Word 2007 whether its on the network or local, it takes an age to open.
If I open up word first, its lightning quick.
There are no add-ins (except smart tag), everything else is inactive.
Anyone recognize this? or put me in the direction of further tests I need to do?
Here is a process monitor capture here ive removed file locking, name collision and successful.
Im now stuck...
Thanks
Phil

Try This
OPENING .xls & .doc SLOWLY
If documents take a long time to open when double clicking the file in Explorer do the following:
Open Explorer, select “Tools” then “Folder Options”.
Select “File Types” tab then type in doc to locate the file extension.
When “DOC Microsoft Office Word 97 – 2003 Document” is highlighted click the “Advanced” button. If there is no advanced button click the “Restore” button. Now click “Advanced”.
Under “Actions” highlight “Open” then click “Edit”.
Click in the “Application used to perform action” window the press the “End” key to go to the end of the text.
There should be a /n /dde at the end of the line, press spacebar then enter “%1” (including quote marks).
Un-check the “Use DDE” box.
Click “OK”.
Click “OK”.
Click on DOC to highlight it then type in docx, repeat the above for docx files.
Click on DOCX to highlight it then type in xls to locate the file extension.
When “XLS Microsoft Office Word 97 – 2003 Worksheet” is highlighted click the “Advanced” button. If there is no advanced button click the “Restore” button. Now click “Advanced”.
Under “Actions” highlight “Open” then click “Edit”.
Click in the “Application used to perform action” window the press the “End” key to go to the end of the text.

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Try Word Repair Toolbox, it's open source and may get your info back
http://www.word.repairtoolbox.com/
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Word may have automatically saved your file.When you start Word the next time, if any AutoRecover files were found, results will be displayed in the Document Recovery pane. Auto recovery option for word 2007 are below:
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We were looking at migrating to Office 2007. To verify compatibility, several key users have loaded Office 2007 on their machines. There seems to be several problems related to opening files in Excel.
If Excel is open and the user does a File/Open, files will open quickly. However, if the user clicks on a file to open it, it can take up to a minute to open. I found a fix for this on this forum. It is to add "%1" to the end of the Open command line in the defined file types for XLS files. After this worked, I found that also needs it for the New on XLT, Open for XLSX, New on XLTM, and New XLTX files.
After adding in the above fix I wanted to verify that it worked correctly by recreating the problem so I went in and removed the "%1" from all of the commands. When I tried to open a file, I got an error. So I went back into the File Types and checked the command lines. Now all of the command lines had a %1 at the end of them without the quotation marks. When I would try to delet this %1, it would now allow me to. I could remove it but when I reopened the line, it was back again. If I added the "%1" back to the end of the line it would take that and it would fix the problem again but I was still unable to remove the %1 from the other commands such as New, Print, Save As, etc. I had to Restore my system in order to remove them.
Further testing on the fix reveals that when I file is opened, it attempts to open the file twice. The first time it opens very quickly and then a minute later it opens the second time. Notice that this is the same delay that was experienced previously. It you open the file and make a change before the minute has elapsed, then you get a message stating that the file is already open and if you open it again you will lose your changes. This is probably due to the Use DDE being selected. But If I turn off DDE, then when I click on the first file, it opens quickly and when I click on the second file, it also opens quickly but if I look at the Task Manager, their are 2 copies of Excel running. If I go to the View tool bar in either copy of Excel and try to view the other window, I can not. So it appears that there physically 2 copies of Excel running. When I went back into the File Types, the Use DDE that I had unselected before is now checked again but the DDE command line is blank.
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As of now, my recomendation to IT is to stay as far away from Office 2007 as possible until Microsoft gets their act together.
By the way...I have tried all of the other recomendations from Microsoft about Excel being slow to start. They make a difference of less than 1 second. They also only make the App start quicker. They are not related to clicking on a file to open it.

I didn't seem to get much help from this forum but I will pass on the fix that I have found.
The problem doesn't have anything to do with the %1 fix that everyone is using. All that does is to open the file before Excel is fully started. In particular, before the add-ins are opened.
You can verify this by changing the command line in the File Types to use a /s parameter which will bypass loading the add-ins.
What I found was that even though I had removed the Adobe AcrobatMaker add-in, the file PDFMaker.xla was still in the XLSTART folder and was being loaded.
Since Office now has it's own PDF functionality, this is no longer needed. I did however want to keep Acrobat so that I could print PDFs from other applications and edit PDF files so I wanted to keep it. Just not in Office.
Here are the steps to remove PDFMaker from Excel.
Choose Start > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs.
Select Acrobat Professional and click Change/Remove.
Click Next.
Select Modify and click Next.
Expand the Create Adobe PDF menu, then select the Acrobat PDF Maker option, and change the status to "This feature will not be available".
Click Next, and then click Finish to complete the process and allow Acrobat to remove the PDFMaker component. Note: You need the installation disk to do this.
After completing this process, it is interesting that it disabled but did not remove the PDFMaker.xla add-in. It is therefore necessary to remove it manually by exploring to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\XLSTART and manually deleting PDFMaker.xla.
Now for those of you who have already tried the "%1" fix and found that it causes new problems and doesn't fix things, you may have already found out that when you try to remove the "%1" from the File Type Open command line, something puts it back in as %1 without the quotation marks. This causes errors when you open a document that has spaces in it's path such as unable to open C:\Documents.xlsx, Unable to open And.xlsx, unable to open Settings.xlsx. No matter how hard you try, you cannot remove the %1.
So here is 2 ways to overcome this.
You can change the parameter from %1 to "%10". This will work as long as you don't try to open 10 files at the same time.
Or you can edit your registry and remove the %1. The easiest way I found was to open the registry editor and search for excel.exe" /e %1. Notice that this is the end of the command line. When I found it, I removed the %1. If you edited more than just the Open command for XLS files, you will need to keep searching until you remove all of the changes. This will get you back to where you were before you tried the "%1" fix.
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Hi Steph99,
In addition to the reply from Paul
P Clement IV
above, the other Microsoft areas relating to
WORD in Office you could try asking in are;
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/word/threads
and
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/word
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Word 2007 won't save files with Acrobat Pro 9.0 Installed

Last night an issue started occurring while trying to save a document in MS Word 2007 (part of an Office Ultimate install). After about 10 hours of trying several suggestions from a variety of forums and MS suggestions I found that the only time I cannot save a file by traditional means is when Acrobat is installed. I tried updating Acrobate and had the same thing happen. MS says all that's left for me to do is get an answer from Adobe (I have to wonder if it's a copout).
Steps taken so far:
Disabled the PDF add-in - still unable to save Word files
Removed PDF add-in - still unable to save Word files
Removed entire CS4 suite - Word was able to properly save files
Installed only the parts of the suite that I use frequently (Photoshop, Soundbooth, Premiere, Acrobat) - unable to save Word files
Removed Acrobat Pro 9.0 - Word saves files properly again
When I say it will not save a file I've tried the keyboard shortcuts for Save/Save As, Choosing the Save/Save As from drop down, and even attempted to save by closing the document. When prompted with the option to save changes I say yes and nothing will happen, I have to close the document with nothing saved.
I hate the idea of reinstalling Acrobat each time I need to use it to keep Word functional. I've seen a ton of threads on other forums related to this issue. Has anybody else seen this or know about a fix/work around? Any help is appreciated. Please let me know if additional detail is necessary.
The operating system for the affected computer is Windows 7 32-bit.

I installed each update individually (6 of them) and rebooted after each update. Opened Word and attempted to save a document (after each update/reboot), the documents still cannot be saved (previously created documents still cannot have new detail saved).
Decided to delete the Office folder in the following path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0\PDFMaker\Office
Opened up word and Acrobat went through an installation processes, to replace what was removed I assume. After this was done I attempted to save a document and was still unable to do so. Went back and deleted that Office folder in the above path again. When opening Word this time I cancelled the installation process that Adobe was trying to complete. Preventing the install of the settings and PDF add-in allowed documents to be saved again in word.
I decided to try to remove the innactive add-in from my Word Options and received the following error message:
"The connected state of Office Add-Ins registered in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE cannot be changed"
Due to my deleting that folder?
I suppose I could cancel that installation that initiates each time I open Word (or any other Office program that benefits from Acrobat Add-ins) but that will be a bit of an annoyance.
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Using Microsoft Word 2007, version 12.0.6425.1000 with Service Pack 2
I am a High School Math teacher, and when working on a document that contains a number of math equations. When I try to save the document, Word refuses to save. It displays the following error: "A file error has occurred. <filename>. OK",
and I am unable to save the file.
Reading the forum, I have found this to be a very common issue going back to 2009, but I have not seen a definitive solution or patch.
I have found a workaround:
Creat a new document
Copy and paste from the corrupted doc each page, saving the new document after each page
Until I hit the error, then I know the page that has the issue, and can usually narrow it down to a specific math equation. Nothing fancy just some basic math.
Manually rewrite the equation in the new document and it will successfully save.
But the issue has been occurring more and more frequently now and it is becoming very frustrating. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

There has been a long time known issue with the equation editor. it causes document corruption by "losing" XML tags.
Apparently fixes for some causes of these problems have been rolled out in Windows updates. But the problem still exists. You've got it easy. A lot of people running into this problem are students working on documents, like a thesis, that is on a short
deadline ...
One identified cause of these problems is editing equations
after you created them. DON'T DO THAT!
If you have to change an existing equation, create a new correct one and delete the old one.
Simpler fix. Don't use Word (or Office) for creating equations. Find some other product, like a pencil.
Over in the "Answers" forum there are a couple volunteers, Tony Jollans and Jeeped
, who have been manually fixing this type of error if you post a new question or add a reply to one of the ongoing discussions on this issue.
Sorry.
If you want to invest the time to figure out what your error looks like you may be able to come up with a fix other than copy /paste method.
Can't open Word File because of end tag/start tag mismatch error... XML Tag
- XML Error – Fix It tool - “The name in the end tag of the element must match the element type in the start tag”
This error is caused when Word either “forgets” to write an XML tag, or writes them in the wrong order.
Tony Jolans was the first person that I heard of with home made tool to fix the problem. Now MS has released a Fix It for one specific variation of the problem.
If the tools don’t fix your problem, the file will have to be fixed manually, repairing the tag order.
The Fix It article notes that the document is still in a fragile state. You have to do some addition fixing to avoid repeats of the problem.
https://blogs.technet.com/b/wordonenotesupport/archive/2011/03/24/error-when-opening-a-word-2007-or-2010-document.aspx
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2528942- FIX IT
This fix it will work for one specific tag error where there are equations and graphics in the same paragraph AND Office 2010 SP1 has not been applied.
Preventative suggestions
<snip Jeeped>
I don't think that anyone can completely stop editing equations, but pre-planning them should avoid unnecessary edits.
While I have no concrete, reproducible evidence that editing equations is a cause, I have made these empirical observations:
I cannot state precisely what many of the DOCX XML tags do, but basic XML syntax rules would suggest that code like:   <m:oMath><m:e><m:ctrlPr/></m:e></m:oMath>
... does nothing at all since it closes everything it opens and offers no content. It looks to me that this is a result of deleting one or more characters from an equation.
While Word 2010 reports these as a problem at: Line: 2 Column: 0 ... Word 2007 will still report the actual position, e.g.:
Line: 2 Column: 2726981 I keep a copy of Word 2007 side-by-side Word 2010 for no other purpose. It's the only Office 2007 program on my computer. This seems like it is actually a step backwards from a resolution since Word 2010 no longer seems
to be able to parse its own error.
Whether the syntax is truly useless and non-effective for any intent or purpose is actually beside the point. The syntax passes conformity tests and the DOCX
should launch. Why an 85 page document is 'broken' due to a few empty XML formatting tags while retaining legal syntax structure is beyond me.
I try to pass along the area that the problem was in and several times people have remarked that the area I report was the place they were last making modifications/deletions to equations (not additions) when the no-load corruption
occurred.
When no indication from the OP is offered on what was worked on last, the Line: 2 Column: 0 corruption often comes within a formula at the very end of the unfinished Word/Document.xml file and it may be inferred
that this was the last place being worked upon.
The corrupt DOCX files I've worked on are very commonly at the last stages of development with a large complex document. While there couldn't be a worse time for a corruption to appear, it would seem that small edits to existing content are causing
it and not large scale new content generation.
Not one of these points is a definitive 'smoking gun', but put together they seem to indicate
formula editing and not formula writing as a cause for the Line: 2 Column: 0 corruption. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is most often a duck.
</snip>
Copy “True Autosave Macros for Office” to this place in reply
Let me fix it myself
If you are familiar with editing XML, you can try to fix the problem yourself by correcting the sequence of the mismatched oMath tags in the document. See the following example:
Incorrect tags:
<mc:AlternateContent>
<mc:Choice Requires=”wps”>
<m:oMath>
</mc:AlternateContent>
</m:oMath>
Correct tags:
<m:oMath>
<mc:AlternateContent>
<mc:Choice Requires=”wps”>
</mc:AlternateContent>
</m:oMath>
Note: You will have to use an application such as Notepad to edit the XML.
Manual Technique
<snip> A DOCX document is actually a .ZIP file that contains many internal components. There is an internal folder called word which will always contain a document.xml file. This file is the basis of the document's layout
and content.
Assuming that the DOCX archive structure has not been corrupted, it can be opened in an archive utility. I use
WinRAR for this. Once opened in
WinRAR, you can drill down into the
word folder and see the document.xml file. I use
Notepad++ as a text editing tool and have the .xml file extension associated with this program so i can simply double-click
document.xml in WinRAR to open an editing session.
Notepad++ has cursor positioning in the right-hand side of the status bar and finding the position of the error (supplied by a failed open in Word) is pretty straightforward. I look for empty formatting
tags first and only remove content if removing empty tags does not allow the document to be opened. I try to note existing content in the area that I make modifications in order that I can supply position reference information to the owner of the DOCX.
When editing, I assume the philosophy that kess is more. My target is to get the document to open in Word with as little modification as possible and let the original owner of the DOCX make any necessary adjustments.
I should mention that after making a change to word/document.xml you need to save it in
Notepad++ then go to
WinRAR and acknowledge that you want to update the file in the DOCX archive. Once the archive is updated, you can attempt to open the DOCX in Word to see if your efforts are successful.
WinRAR
Notepad++
</snip>
Further Fixes
The Fix it solution in this article should let you recover your Word document. However, the symptoms will reappear when you make any further edits to the document unless the core problem in the structure of the document is resolved.
To try to correct the core problem, follow one of these workarounds:
Install Office 2010 Service Pack 1
Office 2010 Service Pack 1 resolves this issue for new files. It will also prevent the problem from recurring with any files that were recovered with the Fix it solution in this article.
To download Office 2010 Service Pack 1, follow the steps provided in this Microsoft knowledge base article:
2460049 - Description of Office 2010 SP1
Grouping Objects
The steps provided work best under Word 2010:
After you open the recovered document, turn on the Selection pane. This can be found in the
Home tab of the ribbon. The editing group of the
Home tab has a dropdown button named Select.
Click the Select button, and then click
Selection Pane...
Press the Ctrl button on your keyboard and then click each text box in the selection pane.
Click the Group button under the Format tab. This will group all the objects together.
As soon as you have all objects grouped on each page, save the document under a new name.
Save the document in the .RTF file format
The steps provided work for both Word 2007 and Word 2010:
After you open the recovered document, click File and select
Save (for Word 2007 click the Office button and select
Save As)
In the Save As dialog box, click "Save as type:" dropdown and select
Rich Text format (*.rtf).
Click Save.
Click to view this
blog for more information about this issue.
Bonus tip: Win7 Win8 Math Equation Input Panel / Math input Panel
http://www.lytebyte.com/2009/07/24/guide-to-math-input-panel-in-windows-7/
http://www.7tutorials.com/windows-7s-tablet-input-panel-text-entry-and-handwriting-recognition
http://www.7tutorials.com/training-tablet-input-panel-work-even-better
http://www.7tutorials.com/do-math-easy-way-math-input-panel
Not an answer to the problem, just a bonus that may make it easier to input formula’s in Win7.
Here’s another one of those didn’t-know-it-existed-until-I-clicked-it-by-accident tools in Win7. It’s called the
Math Input Panel.
To access it, simply click Start, and in the Search Box that appears above, type in
Math Input Panel.
The Window should look like this:
Let the fine folks at Microsoft explain what it’s used for:
“Math Input Panel uses the math recognizer that’s built into Win7 to recognize handwritten math expressions. You can then insert the recognized math into a word-processing or computational program. “
Tony Jolan’s Automatic Fix
Download http://www.wordarticles.com/temp/Rebuilder.dotm Microsoft Office Word Macro-Enabled Template (.dotm) and open it.
Click Options button on the Security warning and select Enable this content.
Click the Broken Documents tab at the far right of the ribbon.
Click the Rebuild button in the left-hand side
Locate and open your corrupt document in the file open dialog.
That's it. The process will repair your document if possible and create a new document with (Rebuilt)
appended to the filename. Be patient as it may take a few minutes. If a repair is not possible, you can then post to a public file area and someone here can attempt a manual repair.
Manual Fix
XML Maker V1.1 is free. It will allow you to open the document.xml file and edit it. It also marks errors and warnings.
I just didn’t have much luck working with it.
A poster used XML Maker V2.1 (US$125, 30day free trial, enough for average person to fix a file)
Notepad ++ is a good, free editor for this type of task
Make a copy of the file
Rename the copy from DOCX to ZIP
Open … .ZIP/word/document.xml in notepad
Copy the contents of the file to clipboard
Open Word
Paste a copy of the copied XML into Word
(optional) the XML is one long string too hard to read, you can replace some tags, with that tag plus a para mark to break up the text to make it more people readable.
Open an XML validator, ie this site on the internet:
http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_validator.asp
Paste another copy of the XML into the “Syntax Check Your XML” input window
Click on “validate” button
Copy the missing tag, ie </mc:Fallback> (yours will be different)
Return to word Find: mc:Fallback> (without the </ so you find both open and closing tags).
Repeat find until you hit 2 open tags in a row. Then you just have to figure out where to put the closing tag between them.
Look for other tags before and after a proper closing tag so you can match the problem area to a good area.
Discussion by many affected people, a couple in discussions are also fixing problem if Tony’s fix doesn’t work
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wordcreate/thread/581159d0-9ebc-4522-b30c-53e33e8268e1
Document Recovery
http://www.wordarticles.com/Shorts/Corruption/Formats.php
This page has the most readable description of Word file structures, DOC and DOCX, I have seen so far
The logical structure of a Word 97‑2003 format document is one of a series of elements arranged in a hierarchy, much like a mini file system. As an example, here is the structure of a simple Word 97‑2003 (.doc) format document:
MyDocument.doc
1Table
*CompObj
Word Document
*SummaryInformation
*DocumentSummaryInformation
The physical structure of the complete file bears little relation to the logical structure; it is, again, of a proprietary design, a compound, or structured storage, file. Briefly, and loosely, the separate logical elements of the file are broken up into
blocks; these blocks are treated as individual units, which units are then organised without regard for their logical arrangement, and catalogued, catalogue and organisation detail being held alongside the blocks themselves, to enable recombination into logical
components when necessary.
Just to give you a flavour, here are some views of three small parts of such a document, viewed in a hex editor:
Views of a Word 97-2003 format Document
The logical structure of a Word 2007 format document is one of a series of elements arranged in a hierarchy, much like a mini file system. As an example, here is the structure of a simple Word 2007 (.docx) format:
MyDocument.docx
_rels
rels
docProps
app.xml
core.xml
word
_rels
document.xml.rels
theme
theme1.xml
document.xml
settings.xml
fontTable.xml
webSettings.xml
styles.xml
[Content_Types].xml
As briefly as before, the [Content_Types] file and the _rels folders, along with the subordinate files therein, contain information about the logical structure, and the two files in the docProps folder contain much the same as the two Information files
in the old format. The document.xml element within the word folder holds the bulk of the document content and the other files within that same folder hold formatting details.
So, you might say, the internal structure of a document has changed a little, so what? There are, however, other changes that make a bigger difference. The first is that, although both logical formats are conceptually similar, they are wrapped up in
completely different ways to make a single file. Instead of the proprietary physical structure used for Word 97‑2003 format documents, a fairly standard, and open, Zip Archive format is used for Word 2007 format documents. The second change is that instead
of using obscure binary codes, everything in Word 2007 format documents, well almost everything, is held in XML format.
All data held as XML? In a standard Zip Package? It should be much easier to work with, then? Judge for yourself; here are some views of parts of a Word 2007 format document taken from a hex editor:
Views of a Word 2007 format Document
FreeFileViewer – reads 100+ text, Office, audio, video format file types – Can open some XML tag error files
http://www.freefileviewer.com/formats.html
Can't open Word file due to undeclared prefix, Location: Part: /word/document.xml, Line:91, Column: 49921
The most likely cause of your particular problem is that you are missing a
schema prefix reference within the opening <document ...> XML tag (usually the second one). Different
schema references are required for various types of specialty content. Here is a sample opening <document ...> tag with a large number of various schema prefix codes. If I remove one or two of these, i can reproduce
your error message.
<w:document xmlns:ve="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:r="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships" xmlns:m="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/math"
xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:wp="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawing" xmlns:w10="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:w="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main" xmlns:wne="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordml">
It's impossible to blindly say exactly what you are missing but if you post an unadulterated copy of your document to a public file area (as noted above) and post the location back here, someone may be able to help. If you are going to go this route, send
a copy that has not already been subjected to repair attempts.
FWIW, while it may be hard to determine exactly which schema you may be missing, I do not believe that having extras causes any problems.
BTW, you don't actually have to rename the DOCX file extension if you have an archiving program. I use WinRAR and simply
<right-click>, Open With... to expose the archive.

PDF embedded in Word 2007 won't open in final PDF

Hello -- I've embedded a PDF into a Word 2007 doc using Insert > Object > Create from File (and displayed as an icon). I can double-click to open the PDF while in Word, but after converting the file to PDF (using the "Create PDF" function, not printing to PDF), the "embedded" PDF is just a picture of the icon -- nothing opens. I've used the same procedure previously and had no problem opening the embedded file, and I don't think I changed any settings anywhere...but obviously I could be wrong... BTW, I'm using Acrobat 9 Pro. Any ideas? Thanks,
JG

Hi Steph99,
In addition to the reply from Paul
P Clement IV
above, the other Microsoft areas relating to
WORD in Office you could try asking in are;
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/word/threads
and
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/word
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Word 2007 doesn't open any documents.

Hello.
Our team are running Outlook 2010 and all the other office apps in 2007.
However, Word 2007 always has a problem with opening documents.
It works, shows none of error messages and the Word 2007 window opens properly but just doesn't show any documents.
To open a document, I have to drag and drop a document in Word 2007 that I want to.
After this small bothering task, everything works really fine.
I have changed every settings and add-in that could cause this issue.
To solve this problem Word 2007 has to be removed and installed again.
I'm really struggling to fix this issue but haven't found any reason.
Please help me with this issue!

Yes I thought of the same thing.
What I found was 2010 changed something in 2007 after Windwos Update.
This might be registries.
An error message box pops up saying 2007 got damaged when I try to remove 2007 from Programs and Features and the list of 2007 is just gone leaving all the functions and feature stayed on a computer.
Office 2007 still works after removing just 'the Office 2007 list' though.
In this case 2007 has to be installed(actually over-installed) AGAIN to write 2007's registry properly, remove 2007 than install 2007 again.
So annoying... to fix this issue, have to do this task...
As you mentioned, I need something to manage the registry and will read the description on the web page carefully.
Thank you so much. Stefan Blom.

Issues with 'Rounding' function (Word 2007 issue? Works in Word 2003...)

My colleague (using Word 2003) and I (using Word 2007) are working on a change to a template where we include a formula that has the function called rounding.
She (2003) is able to preview the pdf but I (2007) am getting error message: : oracle.xdo.parser.v2.XPathException: Extension function error: Method not found 'round'
All other settings that we have appear to be the same (same config file, same java version, etc)
Does anyone know if there are some changes to Word 2007 that are causing this? And, any ideas on how to resolve?
Thanks for the help!
Background:
-The function is designed provide a total weight value: each individual weight value, multiply by a factor of .80, round up, and then added together to get a total amount.
-Because we also show the individual weight values on the output, (also multiplied by the factor of .80 and then rounded up), we need the factor and rounding to happen before the sum).
The entire set of functions for the total weight value is:
<?xdoxslt:set_variable($_XDOCTX,'sum',0)?>
<?for-each:LIST_G_CONTAINER_NAME1?><?for-each:G_CONTAINER_NAME1?>
<?xdoxslt:set_variable($_XDOCTX,'sum', xdoxslt:get_variable($_XDOCTX,'sum')+ xdoxslt:round((GROSS_WT*0.8),2))?><?end for-each?><?end for-each?>
<?format-number: xdoxslt:get_variable($_XDOCTX,'sum');'9G990D00'?>
space
<?WEIGHT_UOM_CODE?>
Error when attempting to preview the pdf after uploading an xml file:
: oracle.xdo.parser.v2.XPathException: Extension function error: Method not found 'round

Hi,
I took my original file (didn't have the round functionality) and Word 2007 and did the following:
1) Tested with xml to ensure that there are no other issues - was able to preview successfully
2) Added the function you suggested: <?xdoxslt:round(1000.98978,2)?> and saved the change
3) Tried to preview using the same xml and got the same error message about rounding
I can't test on 2003 because my colleague is not working right now (she is the one with that version installed). I will try on 2003 later today (but I am guessing it will work for her because the other rounding function works for her).
Thanks for any other ideas about this.
Here is the entire extract of error message:
Font Dir: C:\Program Files\Oracle\BI Publisher\BI Publisher Desktop\Template Builder for Word\fonts
Run XDO Start
RTFProcessor setLocale: en-us
RTFProcessor setConfig: C:\Program Files\Oracle\BI Publisher\BI Publisher Desktop\Template Builder for Word\config\xdo.cfg
FOProcessor setData: C:\Data\BI Publisher\2010_CR-102626_PL-CML_Net Weight\Net Weight Template Changes\Testing\OTST_SC-06_PL_SGS-2903194_Direct_ENG_Jul-09.xml
FOProcessor setLocale: en-us
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.common.xml.XSLT10gR1.invokeProcessXSL(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.common.xml.XSLT10gR1.transform(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.common.xml.XSLT10gR1.transform(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.common.xml.XSLTWrapper.transform(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.template.fo.util.FOUtility.generateFO(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.template.fo.util.FOUtility.generateFO(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.template.fo.util.FOUtility.generateFO(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.template.FOProcessor.createFO(Unknown Source)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.template.FOProcessor.generate(Unknown Source)
     at RTF2PDF.runRTFto(RTF2PDF.java:632)
     at RTF2PDF.runXDO(RTF2PDF.java:466)
     at RTF2PDF.main(RTF2PDF.java:254)
Caused by: oracle.xdo.parser.v2.XPathException: Extension function error: Method not found 'round'
     at oracle.xdo.parser.v2.XSLStylesheet.flushErrors(XSLStylesheet.java:1526)
     at oracle.xdo.parser.v2.XSLStylesheet.execute(XSLStylesheet.java:517)
     at oracle.xdo.parser.v2.XSLStylesheet.execute(XSLStylesheet.java:485)
     at oracle.xdo.parser.v2.XSLProcessor.processXSL(XSLProcessor.java:264)
     at oracle.xdo.parser.v2.XSLProcessor.processXSL(XSLProcessor.java:150)
     at oracle.xdo.parser.v2.XSLProcessor.processXSL(XSLProcessor.java:187)
     ... 16 more

Slow opening files

Hi,
I recently a user's PC. They went to a Windows 7 64bit 12GB RAM, 1 x SSD drive and 1 x SATA. They have been upgraded from Photoshop 7 to PhotoShop CS5. The user is complained that opening files from the network is slower than it was with PS7. I did a comaprision and there is a difference in the speed with which files apepar in the Window in CS5. I have now had to put a version of PhotoShop 7 back on her PC to appease her but her point is correct. PS7 displays files quicker than CS5. Is there anything that can improve the speed with which files are displayed?
I have had a read and applied as many of the settings as are relevant from this article on optimizing performance but it hasn't changed things.
Thanks,
Dermot.

I have done some more research.
The original complaint was that CS5 was comapred to PS7.1. That comparison however was between two different machines. I checked and the slow machine (the new one with the spec in the original post) was using a 100mb network connection whereas the other was on 1GB. I re-patched the slow machine so it was operating at 1gb also. I thought that was the end of it but no!
I had already installed PS7.1 on the slow machine so I did a comparision. I took 10 jpeg whose disk size was between 200kb and 800kb (about 2mb un-compressed). I opened them in CS5 and they took between 8-9 seconds from draging into CS5 to fully rendered. I then did the same on the installed version of PS7. It too 2-3 seconds. These files were from a network share. There may be some improvement with PS7 due to disk caching somewhere.
The graphics card is an Nvidia Quardo 600 1GB DDR3. There is no direct option to disable OpenGL. In the Display options/Nvidia Control Panel you can control global and specific program graphics options. You can modify graphics options for PhotoShop CS (which incidently is called CS4). The options where Quardo or Global. I have set it to Quadro for now I am not sure that the graphics card is the issue but I'm happy to change any settings if they will have a bearing.
Does anyone have any other suggestions I can try?
Thanks,
Dp.

Fix for slow opening files... soon?

We have several stations set up globally in various offices using Photoshop CS...
Image files, no matter how small the file is... even a single small JPG takes a good 10-15 seconds to open (win xp) and we frequently need to work with hundreds of images. This seems to be a major problem and from what I find on Google, not uncommon...
I finally ran into this temporary 'fix' in the archives which involves setting up a LOCAL printer/driver as a DEFAULT...
While that DID alleviate that problem, I can't see that adobe is just letting this be THE fix for the problem... I've done updates to our CS3 products and have a difficult time believing that there is no permanent fix for this yet.
It seems unlike adobe to expect so many clients to have to experience this problem, spending hours or days trying to figure out why their systems have slowed down and asking themselves questions mostly unrelated to the problem, such as 'did i run out of swap space on my drive?', 'how are my history/cache settings?', 'is there some network drive causing the problem?', 'Is there some spyware slowing my box?', etc...
And on top of that having to notify all the offices... 'Okay guys, if you use photoshop you need to do this, this, and that... temporarily'
Please tell me there is a permanent fix soon...

I don't know which versions of photoshop need to check/contact the network printer...
For volumes of image processing via the batch commands I often need to use our old Photoshop 6 which, even with the network (a fairly large corporate network) the files open up almost instantly... every time... unless they're huge print resolution images...
On the same network for such a task (batching hundreds of images) PS CS3 is unuseable to us unless we implement the local printer 'fix'... and even so, there is more of a delay than with our old photoshop...
And why does it need to contact the printer for each file that is opened? For the first one, sure... check it, done... I'm not printing dammit, just opening files.
If it needs printer information the local OS already has drivers loaded up, couldn't it check those? It shouldn't have to look for other network devices on there unless it's using them... but I'm no tech... so there must be a reason that it simply MUST do it...
And even so... why is this 'fix' so damn hard to find on the net? Tons of people with issues and a lone, difficult-to-find blurb as an obscure fix...?

Acrobat 9 Pro very slow open files over network in Windows 7

I have installed Acrobat 9 pro on my new PC. It's running Window 7 64bit. I use it for pre-press of high-resolution files for printing. Sometimes the file sizes run into the 100s of MB.The new PC has reasonably high specs, with 6Gb of RAM and a 2.8Ghz Quad core i7 CPU and gigabit networking.
Opening them when on the local hard disk is reasonably fast. For example a multi-page 400Mb file starts drawing the first page withing 3 seconds. But opening the same file when it's on the server of our gigibit network generates a very long pause. The application locks up and dispays a "not responding" message for 2-3 minutes. The bigger the file, the longer the pause. It doesn't completely crash -- eventually it starts to draw the pages and I can work as normal.
I used to have Acrobat 9 pro on my old XP PC which was a cheap low-end machine when bought 3 years ago. (has on-board shared RAM graphics card and only 1Gb of RAM). But what grieves me the most, is this slow old machine will open the same 400Mb file off the server so much faster than my expensive new machine. There is no lock up and it begins drawing the first page after only approx 5 seconds.
The problem doesn't seem to be simply related to slow network speed. I can copy the entire 400Mb file from the server to my hard disk in only 12 seconds. The old PC is actually slightly slower copying to/from the network. If the application was for some reason copying the entire file into memory or to a local cache, this should still only generate an extra 12 second delay -- not 3 whole minutes.
Adobe Reader 9 doesn't have the problem. I can open the 400Mb file off the network on either my new or old machine within seconds.
Acrobat 9 Pro doesn't have the problem on an old G5 mac either. It's somewhat slower than my old PC but will begin drawing the first page after a few seconds,
So what exactly is Acrobat doing for those 2-3 minutes?
I have already tried:
1. changing network ports/cables.
2. disabling anti-virus software
3. disabling "remote differential compression"
4. Patching Acrobat 9 to 9.2
5. Files located on Windows servers and Mac Xserves.
Not improvements from any of these.

I think I have isolated the source of this problem. It's the Pitstop Professional 9 plug in. I un-installed this, and everything opens quicker than greased lightning. I re-installed it and it's back to slowsville.
Unfortunately Pitstop is essential to my workflow.
Until recently I did my pre-press on a Mac G5 with Acrobat Pro 7 and Pitstop 6.5. I never had this problem with slow file opening. But it seems that the delays would occur when I used the plug-in with large complex files.. So it would open files as fast as you'd expect from an elderly machine. But starting to use Pitstop would result in a prolonged period of staring at a spinning beachball.
I wonder is there any way to stop the Pitstop plug-in from initializing until it is used? So the plug-in stays inert until you select the tool from from the menus.

Adobe reader x very slow opening files over vpn to samba share

Takes 2 to 3 minutes to open a file - Acrobat Pro v7 accesses immediately - downgrade
to Acrobat 7 reader works fine - true on XP and Windows 7 - all updates installed.

I think I have isolated the source of this problem. It's the Pitstop Professional 9 plug in. I un-installed this, and everything opens quicker than greased lightning. I re-installed it and it's back to slowsville.
Unfortunately Pitstop is essential to my workflow.
Until recently I did my pre-press on a Mac G5 with Acrobat Pro 7 and Pitstop 6.5. I never had this problem with slow file opening. But it seems that the delays would occur when I used the plug-in with large complex files.. So it would open files as fast as you'd expect from an elderly machine. But starting to use Pitstop would result in a prolonged period of staring at a spinning beachball.
I wonder is there any way to stop the Pitstop plug-in from initializing until it is used? So the plug-in stays inert until you select the tool from from the menus.

Word 2007 document to PDF file---how?

I have Windows XP, Word 2007 and Adobe Reader 7.0.
I have prepared some documents for printing and binding. The printer tells me I need to "place your Word 2007 document into a PDF file with fonts embedded." How do I do that?
Thanks.
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It requires Acrobat to create a PDF.

Photoshop CS3 extremely slow opening files

Recently my Photoshop CS3 Extended has been taking an extremely long time to open files of all sizes as well as to create a new document. It takes several minutes to open files. While Photoshop is attempting to open, the program is unresponsive.
Photoshop version 10.0.1
OS: Vista 64bit
PC: HP tablet
Ram: 4G
Processor: AMD Turion X2 Ultra Dual-Core Mobile ZM-86 2.4GHz

That's good advice from John there Liz and if you really lose patience, uninstall the whole thing and re-install it. You should get your original speed back then - I'm assuming that all your other programs are running normally.
Steve Donovan
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