Problem starting the application

[macfan4life]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel I got an downloaded Microsoft office update a couple of days ago and since then my Excel application has been experiencing an extremely slow startup time. It now takes about 10 minutes from the time I click on the icon till the application fully loads. Any suggestions?

 

[CyberTaz]

It would be most helpful to have some idea what that update happened to
be... You need to provide specific version info in order for anyone to be
able to help. Have you repaired disk permissions & restarted your Mac since
applying this 'update'?

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Mani]

Hi Bob,

I'm following this thread as I am also experiencing this very same problem and have been for some time.

I will try running Disk Repair and a restart, but, why should I?

Surely the problem, or one of them, is to find the reason a Microsoft update might require a Disk Repair and a restart in the first place?

Nonetheless, I shall post back here once I have and let you know if it made any difference.

 

[macfan4life]

Here are the details:

I have a MacBook Pro laptop, 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard) Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.

I use Excel 2008 for Mac version 12.2.4 (this was the latest update)

I have restarted my Mac (many times) since the update. The initial Excel app startup is still very slow but works fine once the application is fully loaded.

 

[John McGhie]

The repair Permissions and Restart are simply to get to a level playing
field where we KNOW what is in memory.

Both the operating system and Excel store stuff in memory, sometimes for
"months". If you don't restart, you can never guarantee that the copy in
memory is the latest.

Repairing Permissions simply "stirs things up" and forces the system and
Excel to re-read files it may think it has already read. By rights, it
"should" do 'nothing'. In practice, you would be surprised how many little
glitches 'go away' when you repair permissions.

Cheers

Hi Bob,

I'm following this thread as I am also experiencing this very same problem and
have been for some time.

I will try running Disk Repair and a restart, but, why should I?

Surely the problem, or one of them, is to find the reason a Microsoft update
might require a Disk Repair and a restart in the first place?

Nonetheless, I shall post back here once I have and let you know if it made
any difference.

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