Word, Excel, microsoft product issues

[fufiter9246]

At it again,

Ok, there are some issues with my microsoft products. Mainly being, say for instance I open up Word. Then I go to File>>Open>>and then I select the drop down menu to display the listed folders. Well it hangs, it also does this in Excel, and Powerpoint. I have some mapped drives and shared folders, but nothing major, I just added new memory too. Any ideas?

[osprey4]

It hangs and won't list any folders at all? Or does it eventually list the folders?

[fufiter9246]

it hangs and then eventually lists them, it does this everytime

[ChrisK2972]

have you updated your Office products?

[youngqd]

mine does this when I have a CD in the tray
it has to read the CD directory even if I'm working on the hard drive
your 'mapped drives' could cause the delay also

[vass0922]

Possiblilty one of your mapped drives isn't available?
Maybe mapped to server1, and server 1 isn't available at the time.. or possible network problems slowing it down...