Increasing the speed of Microsoft Word 2008

Those of you foolish enough – like me – to upgrade to the latest Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac suite will have noticed – among other things – that it’s incredibly slow to open documents. I went searching for a fix and found this:

Basically, in Preferences, you switch off “WYSIWYG font and style menus”. You’ll find it makes a helluva difference. If anyone has any similar clues to cure Excel and Powerpoint I’d be thrilled to hear them.