



I then found that disabling the validation process by setting the following registry value made the documents open instantly. Press Esc to Cancel in the status bar, but pressing Escape didn’t help.Ī bit of research about what the validation process does led me to this article. We had a client where some documents were taking between 25 and 30 seconds to open, but only for some users. Turns out with Word 2010 there can be another reason. Usually the cause of documents being slow to open in Word is when the attached template is missing – especially when the template is located on a network.
