Very interesting indeed, John. You do come up with the widest variety of things that I have ever seen!

I went to the site, read, and downloaded. As last step of the install I told it to start the thing.
Instantly I did so my mouse started acting up. I also got a bit of a growl sound that lasted about half a second a few more seconds into its run. Closed it and mouse returned to normal.

In any case, I will play with it further.

Thanks for that.
Jim


>Jim
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>Several Dell notebooks have a notorious bug in their fan handling. If yours is one of the affected Dells, I suspect that Word must be doing some invisible processing when it is visible, causing the processor to heat up and the fan to start.
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>Check out the i8kfan product (it was at http://www.diefer.de/i8kfan/index.html but that url seems to fail. Try looking up i8kfan on Google) and if your machine is one of the affected ones, install i8kfan. Prepare to be amazed- Dell's fan control leaves your processor and hard drive far, far hotter than recommended by the manufacturers; my notebook sounds like a jumbo jet when I do intensive processing and both fans go to high speed. Dell's own fan control never exceeded slow speed.
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>Regards
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>JR