Note: If possible, also ensure that the local drive storing your documents is uncompressed. Once done, sync your changes into the network location or save a new version of your document so you can share with others contributors or reviewers. Therefore, If possible, ensure that the documents you are working are stored in your local drive. Retrieving document and saving changes into files stored in remote locations (OneDrive, SharePoint libraries, shared folders etc’) is typically time consuming and depends on your network performance.

Go ahead and highlight the entry to uninstall.

Similar to the previous tip, however, instead of un-checking the COM Add-Ins entries to disable proceed as following: If so, you might want to remove the disabled Add-Ins altogether, this will be covered in the next section.

Startup Word and see if you notice fast startup performance.

Now, click on Add-Ins at the left side of the Windows called ‘ Word Options’.

Hit the ‘File’ button at the top right and choose ‘Options’ at the left side of the screen.

If you notice that Word is slow as startup, you might want to look into your installed Add-Ins and temporarily disable the ones you don’t currently need.

This is probably the most common performance hiccup of Microsoft Office program, so it’s applicable also to Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Visio. The caveat is that sometimes, these Add-Ins slow Word, specially at startup, as the programs are loaded when Word is started causing a noticeable delay. In a way, you can think of those little programs as browser Add-ons, but just for Microsoft Office. These small software programs extend the capabilities of the standard Office package to improve user productivity. Microsoft Office software has the capability to host Add-In components. There are cases in which a hardware upgrade might be needed, but there is a lot you can do in the software configuration side, before considering buying new hardware.

In this article, you’ll find some quick DIY tips to clean up your Microsoft Word install which based on feedback of many of our readers, will result in faster performance. Same can happen in other MS Office apps, such as Excel and Outlook, which might fell a bit clunky. Microsoft Word’s performance is in general reasonable fast but it can definitely deteriorate and significantly slow down if bloated with add-on software or running on dated or inadequate hardware. Any ideas from your side? Why Microsoft Word is slow?

My feeling is that some additional packages i have installed are causing this. Lately, i am noticing some slow down in my Microsoft Word software performance, this is visible mainly when starting up the software.

Running on Windows 7, 8 and 10 operating systems. Applicable for: Office 365 subscriptions Word 2019, 2016, 20.

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