Cursor can't keep up with typing speed

[Tanneron]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC

My cursor can't keep up with the speed at which I can type. Sometimes my cursor is entire sentences behind! When this happens I quit Word and restart it. Typing then is near normal but before long the cursor lags far behind again.

 

[John McGhie]

That's a useful data point: it indicates that the problem is due to
excessive Temporary Files.

Try this:

Go to Word>Preferences>Save and turn ON "Always create backup".

That places the "previous version" of each file in the same folder as the
current version, each time you save. But a side-effect of doing that is
that each time it saves, Word closes many of the temporary files it is
holding open waiting for you to "undo" things.

This may fix your "slowing down over time" problem.

Now, all you have to do is remember to manually save each time you pause to
think. If Word crashes on you and loses your work often enough (and it
will...) you will have this burned into your memory as an article of
religious faith

Hope this helps

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC

My cursor can't keep up with the speed at which I can type. Sometimes my
cursor is entire sentences behind! When this happens I quit Word and restart
it. Typing then is near normal but before long the cursor lags far behind
again.

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[Tanneron]

It doesn't seem to have much of an effect. My typing is fine until after I save input for the first time, and then it begins to slow down. I've reviewed my Activity Monitor and there doesn't seem to be a power problem.

 

[John McGhie]

Then I don't know what the problem is, and yours is the first report of it.

Please zip up a file that is slow, and send it to me at (e-mail address removed)

I will take a look and see if I can see the problem.

Cheers

It doesn't seem to have much of an effect. My typing is fine until after I
save input for the first time, and then it begins to slow down. I've reviewed
my Activity Monitor and there doesn't seem to be a power problem.

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[Kelly]

The same thing happens on my computer. I do not have any memory problems and the problem is not related to a particular file as EVERY single file I create, open or reopen is extremely slow. It is not just the cursor being a sentence behind but just saving a doc takes minutes and Word, Excel & Entourage take 10-15 minutes just to open. This is ridiculous! And now that i have upgraded I can not go back to 2004 because all my Entourage emails are no longer compatible!

 

[John McGhie]

You can go back: just don't roll back in Entourage.

Simply re-install Word and Excel from Office 2004.

I have both running on this computer: the only provision is do not allow two
versions of Entourage to run at the same time. That starts two instances of
the calendar daemon and makes for very interesting issues.

But I frequently run Word, Excel and PowerPoint side-by-side without
ill-effects.

However, we STILL do not know what causes this issue, and neither does
Microsoft (we just asked them yesterday). So "the same thing happens on my
computer" is totally frustrating to us MVPs. We know you know how to make
the computer do this, but we don't. And until we can make it happen,
Microsoft can't find the cause or fix it.

Unless you and everyone else who has this problem can take the time to tell
us exactly how you get the thing into this condition, it can never be fixed.

Cheers

The same thing happens on my computer. I do not have any memory problems and
the problem is not related to a particular file as EVERY single file I create,
open or reopen is extremely slow. It is not just the cursor being a sentence
behind but just saving a doc takes minutes and Word, Excel & Entourage take
10-15 minutes just to open. This is ridiculous! And now that i have upgraded I
can not go back to 2004 because all my Entourage emails are no longer
compatible!

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Sydney, Australia. mailto:[email protected]

 

[ljefferson3]

You can go back: just don't roll back in Entourage.

Simply re-install Word and Excel from Office 2004.

I have both running on this computer: the only provision is do not allow two
versions of Entourage to run at the same time. That starts two instances of
the calendar daemon and makes for very interesting issues.

But I frequently run Word, Excel and PowerPoint side-by-side without
ill-effects.

However, we STILL do not know what causes this issue, and neither does
Microsoft (we just asked them yesterday). So "the same thing happens on my
computer" is totally frustrating to us MVPs. We know you know how to make
the computer do this, but we don't. And until we can make it happen,
Microsoft can't find the cause or fix it.

Unless you and everyone else who has this problem can take the time to tell
us exactly how you get the thing into this condition, it can never be fixed.

Cheers




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