Office X extremely sluggish performance

[Allan Sutherland]

I have a beautiful new G4 , 1 GHz, 512 MG Ram powerbook. I installed OS X
10.2.8. I very recently installed Office X. I expected this to be faster
than my old powerbook G3 with Office 2001 installed working under classic.
Sadly this is definitely not happening.

First, sometimes in typing, the whole thing hangs and my input is
interrupted, with a large section omitted in the middle (for example the
last piece might come out as - with a led in the middle).

Second, when is save, I get the progress in the bottom with a hang before
the save is completed, sometime a spinning pizza appears. This consumes
somewhere between 30 seconds and over a minute (irrespective of document
size, even small documents do this).

Third, sometimes the cursor freezes or moves erratically, this occurs in
Entourage also).

Fourth, attempting to click of spam to have it erazed from the server
produces a significant pause, and also a frozen and jumpy cursor.

These are the most problematic things that come to mind, but that is more
than enough. I am typing this on an old G3 desktop with a processor of 238,
and using Office 2001 without any of these glitches.

In a word, HELP please.

Many thanks in advance.

Allan.

 

[waveyd]

10.2 is plagued with spinning cursor syndrome. It's not your fault.
Office 2001 was much faster, and when I'm at work even my old pentium
III speeds through documents in a way I've never seen Word X do.

The slowdowns are MUCH lessened with 10.3, although Word X and10.3
present some problems with Japanese text that you should be aware
of--see my posting about this.

Anyway, I have an old Powerbook G3 pismo, and 10.3 has given it a new
life. We'll wait and see what Office 11, which is being made for
Panther I'm told, brings. But I would recommend 10.3.

David Averbach
UC Berkeley