Completely unusable with the massive lag...this is designed for businesses?

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tom.s

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel What a piece of garbage. For every edit, an action that takes 1 second, you have to wait 3-10 seconds or more, watching that stupid beachball spin, in order to complete the task. So now putting together a presentation that normally took a few hours takes a few days.

Thanks Microsoft for developing a bloating piece of sh*t that is not business friendly.

But some jerkoff is going to respond and tell me about all the wonderful features this has... yeah, right... not if you can't use them in any timely manner.
 
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Tony_Carter

I agree. I've got both Office 2007 and Office 2008. Office 2008 is slower on my dual quad core Mac Pro than Office 2007 is running via Fusion 3 and Windows 7.

At least the Mac version doesn't insist on moving functions into different parts of the ribbon depending on what you've got selected.
 
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Robbie70

Interesting! I have used both, also, and not had any problems except as a classroom teacher, the path animation works on some of the machines but not all. We all have the same computer, same processor, same image. Has nothing to do with the updated program, because we all have the same. Still waiting on this one.

The problems you are having certainly can be frustrating.
 
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Jim Gordon Mac MVP

Interesting! I have used both, also, and not had any problems except as
a classroom teacher, the path animation works on some of the machines
but not all. We all have the same computer, same processor, same image.
Has nothing to do with the updated program, because we all have the
same. Still waiting on this one.

The problems you are having certainly can be frustrating.
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Hi Robbie,

The ability to use path animations was provided in one of the updates.
Apparently the computers that are missing the path animation feature
were not updated properly. It's important to install updates in the
order in which they were provided.

If it were me, on the affected machines I would uninstall Office using
the Remove utility. Then I would reinstall Office and let it update itself.

-Jim
 
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Michel Bintener

Hi Robbie,

The ability to use path animations was provided in one of the updates.
Apparently the computers that are missing the path animation feature
were not updated properly. It's important to install updates in the
order in which they were provided.

If it were me, on the affected machines I would uninstall Office using
the Remove utility. Then I would reinstall Office and let it update itself.

-Jim
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In addition to Jim's comments: the Path Animation feature was introduced
with Service Pack 2. If your copy of PowerPoint 2008 can't create them,
then this Service Pack (also referred to as 12.2.0) has not been
applied. Also, keep in mind that PowerPoint 2008, prior to the SP2
update, has, as far as I know, always been able to *display* path
animations created in other versions of PowerPoint. So even though these
machines may not be able to insert path animations because of the
absence of the SP2 update, they should be able to display them.
 
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Jim Gordon Mac MVP

Michel said:
In addition to Jim's comments: the Path Animation feature was introduced
with Service Pack 2. If your copy of PowerPoint 2008 can't create them,
then this Service Pack (also referred to as 12.2.0) has not been
applied. Also, keep in mind that PowerPoint 2008, prior to the SP2
update, has, as far as I know, always been able to *display* path
animations created in other versions of PowerPoint. So even though these
machines may not be able to insert path animations because of the
absence of the SP2 update, they should be able to display them.
Click to expand...

And sorry to pile onto Michel's posting - you can't apply Service Pack 2
onto office if you've applied other subsequent service packs and then
reapply those subsequent service packs. You'll have an unusable mess.

-Jim
 
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