Slow Templated dialog box fix for Office

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clip_image002 The Templates dialog box does not appear for three or four seconds when you try to create new documents by using the templates in Office 2003

When you try to create new documents by using templates that are located on a network share in Microsoft Office 2003, the Templates dialog box does not appear for three or four seconds. This problem occurs if you set the file location of the workgroup templates to a drive that you have mapped to the network share.

This Fix it solution enables functionality provided by the following hotfix:

957043: Description of the Office 2003 post-Service Pack 3 hotfix package (Mso.msp): August 26, 2008