Word the CPU hijacker?

When running Word 2004, quite often the Macbook goes crazy in terms of CPU usage and heat. This is happening with fairly ordinary type documents. What happens is:
- Fans spins up and Macbook goes into Jumbo Taxi noise mode
- CoreDue Temp shows CPUs ramped to 2GHz and temp steady at mid-80s (fans running for 10 minutes or more but still hot)
- Activity Monitor shows Word using a fairly steady 99.7%+ of CPU and CPU graphic shows this is asymmetric (ie one core being used to full).
- Word is using about 125MB RAM (MAcbook is 1GB)
There is somthing else strange. If one looks at Parent process for Word listed in activity viewer, it says Mail! So if you then quit mail, the Word CPU score drops back down to 12-15% and the Macbook taxis to a steady stop with tempt down to 65 and no jet engines! Reboot Mail and all is well...
Is this some form of glitch between Word and Mail (have had attachments open from within Mail..)
macbook black, 2GHz, 1GB RAM, 100GB HD   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

Try saving the attachment to your desktop, for instance, and open that to see if it makes a difference. It's possible that through opening the attachment directly from the message may cause temporary file issues in Word.

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