Can somebody please tell me why Word v.X, with one document open but not being actively edited, should take up 30-50% of the CPU time on this machine? All I want to do is look at the documentation for this file format, not make it dance about the screen.
Hmmm. I wonder if I could save it as html or something and look at it with a tool that wasn’t written by evil monkeys on crack?
Even with no document open Word takes up 10-15% of the CPU. Drives me crazy.
I’ve seen the same — try switching off (background) speelchecking and grammar checking.