Originally Posted by BrianHoard

If I was wanting to find out if my ribbons were slowing things down, here's what I would do:

• Time how long it takes for Word to launch with the way it is now.
• Completely disable the ribbon by temporarily moving Normal.dotm to another folder. Or if you use a different .dotm or .docm file for your ribbon, temporarily move it somewhere Word can't find it. Relaunch Word and time how long this takes.
• The difference between these 2 times is how long your Ribbon and macros are taking.
• If it's significant, that's good. You found the problem.
• From there, I'd disable just the ribbon, then just the macros and continue to narrow down where the delay is coming from.
• If I found the bulk of the delay is coming from a single macro, I'd look at that to try to optimize it.
• Another thing to look at is where Normal.dotm is stored. If you are on a network, that could potentially be the culprit if there is lots of traffic and you are on a slow network.

Okay, that's some things to try. Hope something here helps. Please report what you find.