General slowness of Powerpoint 2004

[NIgel]

Sorry in advance if this has been covered before. I installed Office 2004
about a month ago and I like many of the new features in powerpoint.
However it is really slow - much slower than PowerPoint v.X.

For example, opening the same powerpoint file and selecting to view in the
slide sorter view, powerpoint v.X takes only 1/2 the time powerpoint 2004
does (5 sec verses 10). OK is only 5secs more but one might expect the new
version of a program to at least be the same as the old. Also when doing a
powerpoint show, 2004 is glacial in its slide transitions on a show compared
to v.X (slides set to no transition).

This is all running on a 1Gz G4 mirrored drive powermac with 1mb L3 cache
and 1Gb DDR RAM so its not the machine.

Any clues anyone

Cheers

Nigel

 

[Phil the Fish]

Sorry in advance if this has been covered before. I installed Office 2004
about a month ago and I like many of the new features in powerpoint.
However it is really slow - much slower than PowerPoint v.X.

For example, opening the same powerpoint file and selecting to view in the
slide sorter view, powerpoint v.X takes only 1/2 the time powerpoint 2004
does (5 sec verses 10). OK is only 5secs more but one might expect the new
version of a program to at least be the same as the old. Also when doing a
powerpoint show, 2004 is glacial in its slide transitions on a show compared
to v.X (slides set to no transition).

This is all running on a 1Gz G4 mirrored drive powermac with 1mb L3 cache
and 1Gb DDR RAM so its not the machine.

I'm very sorry to say that I have to totally agree .... This package whilst
it has some very nice visuals etc, is noticeably slow and bloated.

I've been comparing the performance of ppt files using both 2004 and 2001
over the past week using both an older powermac dual 500 with 1.25GB RAM,
and a new 15" powerbook 1.5Gz 1GB Ram using OSX 3.3 and classic in 9.2.
Result:
2001 running in emulation classic (9.2), beats 2004 running native in
OSX.... Everytime.....!!!! Movie sync, transitions, etc, etc :-(
And the dual will let me boot in native 9.2 and run 2001 ... Even smoother

So I'm resigned to ditching ppt 2004 until some sort of credible updates
come along, and run my lectures in 2001, and live with the odd stutter and
freeze....

From what I can make out, my biggest regret is holding out for 2004 and not
buying v.X :-(

Phil

 

[Nigel McMillan]

I'm very sorry to say that I have to totally agree .... This package whilst
it has some very nice visuals etc, is noticeably slow and bloated.

I've been comparing the performance of ppt files using both 2004 and 2001
over the past week using both an older powermac dual 500 with 1.25GB RAM,
and a new 15" powerbook 1.5Gz 1GB Ram using OSX 3.3 and classic in 9.2.
Result:
2001 running in emulation classic (9.2), beats 2004 running native in
OSX.... Everytime.....!!!! Movie sync, transitions, etc, etc :-(
And the dual will let me boot in native 9.2 and run 2001 ... Even smoother

So I'm resigned to ditching ppt 2004 until some sort of credible updates
come along, and run my lectures in 2001, and live with the odd stutter and
freeze....

From what I can make out, my biggest regret is holding out for 2004 and not
buying v.X :-(

Phil

Yes version v.X has been fine generally but I have given up using v2004 for
lecturing or talk mainly due to the slowness (and my G4 iBook only does
monitor mirroring so I cant use the cool presenters tools - knew I should
have bought the powerbook). I still use it to make presentations though.
Hope they fix it soon.

Nigel