Office 2004 is Slow

[Steve F]

Hi All,
I have a iMac G5 (1.8GHz) with 512MB of RAM and OS 10.3.8. I've
recently bought the Pro version of Microsoft Office 2004. All Office
programs run slow; for example, as I type in Word the text will
consistantly take a few second to appear on the screen; in Excel, the
computer screen is consistenly around 1 second behind what I am doing.
I've downloaded all the lastest updates for OSX and Office but this has
not corrected this time lag. Can anybody please help?

 

[Mike Lilly]

Steve,
I don't know what is going on with your computer, but I can at least let
you know that Office 2004 is not inherently as slow as you have experienced.
I am running it on a 400 Mhz G4 using OS 10.3.7 and not experiencing the
problems you describe. Sorry I can't help more.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi Steve,

One or two others have posted the same question in the past and I
believe that the solutions were posted. You might wish to do a Google
search on the topic.

One of the possible causes is that you installed Office more than once
into different locations on your computer. I don't think that was the
most likely cause, though.

-Jim

 

[screfield]

Thanks for the tip Jim. I found an item you posted back in Jan 2003 to
a person with a similar problem to mine. I have followed the advice
you gave him and it appears to have worked. For the record: the advice
you gave was to run "repair permissions" in the Disk Utility. There is
now only an occational lag in Word (much like an 'auto-save' lag only
the computer is not auto-saving at the time) but this is quite
infrequent. Once again, thank for your help.

Thanks also for your encouragment Mike, its always good to know that a
program does work.

Steve F

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi Steve,

If you are experiencing occassional short lags it's likely due to your
hard drive spinning down. You can prevent that from happening using the
energy saving control panel.

Folks with network drives can experience a similar phenomenon when the
network drive spins down or becomes unavaiable due to network traffic.

-Jim