Word running slow

[Dferg]

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

I recently updated Office from 2004 to 2008. Some word documents old and new run so slow that it is unusable. Like 20 seconds (minimum) per keystroke. What is the problem? Excel also runs slow occaisionally.

 

[John McGhie]

My First guess would be document corruption.

My second guess would be some kind of helper application that is interfering
with Word.

Let's try a Maggie on one of those documents and see what effect that has:


The Maggie:

1. Create a new blank document
2. Carefully select all of the text in the bad document EXCEPT the last
paragraph mark
3. Copy it.
4. Paste in the new document.
5. Save under a new file name and close all, then re-open.

This technique for de-corrupting is known as "Doing a 'Maggie'", after
Margaret Secara from the TECHWR-L mailing list, who first publicised the
technique.

Cheers

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

I recently updated Office from 2004 to 2008. Some word documents old and new
run so slow that it is unusable. Like 20 seconds (minimum) per keystroke. What
is the problem? Excel also runs slow occaisionally.

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John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia. mailto:[email protected]

 

[Dferg]

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

I recently updated Office from 2004 to 2008. Some word documents old and new
run so slow that it is unusable. Like 20 seconds (minimum) per keystroke.
What is the problem? Excel also runs slow occaisionally.

Are all your other apps working normally[/QUOTE]

Sometimes they are, sometimes they are not...

 

[Dferg]

My First guess would be document corruption.

My second guess would be some kind of helper application that is interfering
with Word.

Let's try a Maggie on one of those documents and see what effect that has:


The Maggie:

1. Create a new blank document
2. Carefully select all of the text in the bad document EXCEPT the last
paragraph mark
3. Copy it.
4. Paste in the new document.
5. Save under a new file name and close all, then re-open.

This technique for de-corrupting is known as "Doing a 'Maggie'", after
Margaret Secara from the TECHWR-L mailing list, who first publicised the
technique.

Cheers
Thanks, I will try this...



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Don't wait for your answer, click here: <http://www.word.mvps.org/>

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia. mailto:[email protected]