Vista - Office 2007 Configuration ?

Periodically, and seemingly at random, when I open a Word or Excel
document, I have to wait through an "Office 2007 Configuration" process
before the document will finally open. Can anyone tell me what's going
on here?

Diagnose and repair crashing Office programs by using Office Diagnostics
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/he...340761033.aspx

Office Diagonstics is one solution that hopefully will work. Also are you
getting any specific error message on the desktop or at eventvwr.msc in the
run box>enter>application with Office as the source arrowing down to the
time of the problem opening Word or Excel?

I couldn't find anything directly on point searching MSKBs, and this is
remotely analagous but probably not helpful--I don't know ifIRM was in the
picture (doesn't seem so) and although it was an Office 2003 MSKB, often
they can apply to more than one version.

You receive a configuration error message when you use Information Rights
Management in Office
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827737/en-us

It is not presented as an "error" at all. I double-click a Word or Excel
document and a light blue window pops up that says something like (I
can't recall in detail and will have to remember to write it down next
time) "Microsoft Office Configuration in Progress" with the familiar
green dashes moving from left to right, and when it finishes, the
document opens as if nothing unusual had happened.

This only occurs maybe once out of every fifty times I open an Office
document.

Thanks. I check that out.

Hmm. I just ran the Office Diagnostics for my Word 2007, which may
actually be the only Office program this has occurred in (I can't
remember for sure about Excel), and it didn't find any problems at all.
Oh well; it was an interesting experience, and now I know about Office
Diagnostics. This isn't a "crashing" problem at all, and isn't even
presented as an "error" situation. It just claims to be going through
Microsoft Office Configuration, and I have to wait it out. The first
couple of times it happened, it took two or three minutes, but lately
it's been under a minute. Not a very serious matter, since it happens so
infrequently. But rather odd. I originally thought it had something to
do with converting my Office 2000 documents for use with Office 2007,
but I've seen it happen with documents created in Office 2007, as well.

Well... are you opening documents created in previous versions of Word? I'm
not sure, but would guess Word would throw some kind of dialog box asking as
to what document type you want to open the file... Or maybe you've got
features flagged to install on first time used and you're just hitting a lot
of these as you open different documents. Both SWAG's, no doubt.

Nope. Thought, at first, that it might be due to my old docs created in
Word 2000, but it has happened with recently created docs in Word 2007,
as well.

OK... like I said, t'was just a SWAG... ;-)

Guesses are perfectly kosher. Thanks, anyway.