Microsoft®Word 2004 forMac®

[Oscar A. Moreno]

I have been using Microsoft®Word 2004 for Mac® in G5 DP 1.8GHz with
10.3.(4-6). When typing in a document, Word seems sooooo sssslllloooowwww.
Has anyone found this behavior? What to do about it? Any help is welcome.
Oscar

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Slowness in cutting/pasting and showing formatting changes is a known issue,
caused by changes in the way the screen gets refreshed. Is that what you
are talking about?

Or is it slow in a different way? Are you typing faster than the letters
show up? Or is it something else entirely?

DM

 

[Fredrik Wahlgren]

I have been using Microsoft®Word 2004 for Mac® in G5 DP 1.8GHz with
10.3.(4-6). When typing in a document, Word seems sooooo sssslllloooowwww.
Has anyone found this behavior? What to do about it? Any help is welcome.
Oscar

Hi
There's a similar discussion in the microsoft.public.mac.office.word
newsgroup "Slow speed in Word X"
It has nany replies and may be of interest.

/ Fredrik

 

[Oscar A. Moreno]

All of the above.

Oscar A. Moreno
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

For slowness in reflecting cut/copy/paste and formatting changes, see the
mid-October 04 thread "Macro Speeds up Mac Word 2004" on the group
microsoft.public.mac.office.word, which has a trick to help out, and
information about the cause.

Typing faster than the letters show up I think is *not* a known issue,
though it may be related to the above issue.
Try the regular troubleshooting tips:
http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/TroubleshootingIndex.htm
(hit refresh a few times in Safari, or use a different browser)
Which might also help with the "something else entirely" that you said was a
problem, without providing details.
Normal View can also be faster than Page Layout.
Presumably you aren't running a G5 DP with less than 512MB RAM?

DM

 

[JE McGimpsey]

For slowness in reflecting cut/copy/paste and formatting changes, see the
mid-October 04 thread "Macro Speeds up Mac Word 2004" on the group
microsoft.public.mac.office.word, which has a trick to help out, and
information about the cause.

For those who may be seeing this after the thread expires from the
server, you can find it at

http://google.com/groups?threadm=BD92B799.98CA%[email protected]

 

[Oscar A. Moreno]

I have 1.5 GB of RAM installed. I have a HD 160GB. I have updated Word as
already recommended. I have the OS updated to the latest. I have repaired
the HD as recommended by Apple. I have run Repairing Permissions. I have
run the Maintenance Scripts. Still Microsoft® Word 2004 for Mac® is
ssssssooooooo ssssssllllllloooooooowwwwwww! What is a person to do? I sent
feedback to MS about the problem. Is anyone with some power within MS
reading this NW? Help!!!

Oscar

 

[JE McGimpsey]

I have 1.5 GB of RAM installed. I have a HD 160GB. I have updated Word as
already recommended. I have the OS updated to the latest. I have repaired
the HD as recommended by Apple. I have run Repairing Permissions. I have
run the Maintenance Scripts. Still Microsoft® Word 2004 for Mac® is
ssssssooooooo ssssssllllllloooooooowwwwwww! What is a person to do? I sent
feedback to MS about the problem. Is anyone with some power within MS
reading this NW? Help!!!

MacBU does read these groups, but rarely responds.

What you're describing seems odd. Aside from the scrolling issues
mentioned before, Word 2004 is relatively snappy for me. I type at about
60-80 wpm, and the characters are easily visible on screen by the time
each key has returned to its "up" position.

Is there a difference between the speed in page layout mode and normal
mode? Do you have the PDFMaker.dot add-in installed? How about spell-
and grammar-checking as you type - any difference if that's off? Turn
off Live Word Count - any better?

If not, can you try to be specific about (or even better, quantify) what
you mean by sssssssssssoooooooo sssssssslllllllllloooooooooowwwwwwwwwww?

 

[Oscar A. Moreno]

Thank you for your comments. I am comparing the current Microsoft® Word
2004 for Mac® to the MS Word 98 for Mac that I had installed in OS 9 before.
I used the upgrade offer from Microsoft® to acquire Microsoft® Office 2004
for Mac®. All settings that I had previously set in the 98 version I have
set in the 2004 version. Thus, the 98 version did not show the slow
behavior that the 2004 shows. Yes, I have spell checking on. Yes, I have
layout view on. No, I do not have PDFMaker add-in. Typing in 2004 is very
slow when in Layout view. If one tries to go above 60 wpm, the application
chokes. Although setting Live Word Count OFF seems to help. Cutting and
pasting is slow. I have to use Layout view for proper cut/paste. So, are
you saying I am stuck in the mud? Again, thanks for your comments.