Symptom : WhenEver I open Word 2007when I'm not in the office it tries to connect to a printer .
This takes a long time and seems as if Word is stuck .
Solution : Word is loading the printer driver in order to format the document accordingly .
In case the driver of the default printer is not installed on your machine , but installed on a server and you are not close to the printer or not connected to the network it takes time till it times out .
My solution is to change the default printer to a printer with a driver installed locally or a software that acts like a driver like a Word to PDF software
I'm using PrimoPDF as the default printer .