I've been working with access 2000 profesionally now for 5 years and I've had
this problem many times and I'd like to know if anyone else has had the same
problem.  It can occur on both local drive mdb's or those located on a
network server. A report or form will become slow to open, design or save.  
It can take 2 - 3 minutes at times.  I have found that if I export the report
or form to a copy of the original mdb and then delete the report or form and
then import it back again it will work fine.  As soon as I make a change and
try to save it it can take a couple minutes for the save to take place. Once
saved the report or form will again be slow until I do the export "trick"
again.  Now over my five years I've seen this happen on many different
machines and installations of Office 2000 so it seems to me to be a "bug" in
Office.
Has anyone else experienced this.  Is there a fix available.  I am
comstantly updating many of my reports of forms and it gets very time
comsuming at times doing all this exporting and importing and waiting for 2 -
3 minute saves