Powerpoint 2007 and Excel 2007 Beta 2 is painfully slow

[Jan Sichula]

Hello everyone,

let me share some of mine experiences with two new Office apps. I like the
new UI and new OfficeArt features simply rock. Nevertheless I am troubles
with the performance. As soon as I add any picture or shape or effect to the
slide in Powerpoint, the performance drops down drastically to a level where
moving cursor from character to character takes 2 to 3 seconds. When I add a
two a three pictures on a slide, the Powerpoint becomes virtually unusable.
Excel is not doing much better, charts and any new features are very slow.
My Office XP and Office 2003 installations is running fast and fine so I
suspect that problem has to do with those two Office 2007 apps and not with
my hardware configuration. Even Word 2007 is responsive enough. I hope
Microsoft will do some performance optimization before RTM otherwise new
Office is an impossibility for me.
Did anyone experience similar behavior to mine? Any advice on how to resolve
the issues?


My computer hardware and software setup:
Windows XP Professional SP2
Celeron 4 1,7Ghz
786 MB RAM
40GB HDD
NVidia GeForce 4 MX440 64MB AGP 8x video card

Jan Sichula
(Slovak Republic)

 

[Gyorgy Moldova [MVP]]

of course, it's still beta. We all expect significant rise in speed &
performance.

 

[Echo S]

I'm running Office 2007 Beta 2 on a Wondows XP SP2 Virtual Machine, and I am
simply not experiencing these types of issues.

I understand your hardware configuration is fine for Office 2003, but I
would at least try setting hardware acceleration back to see if it helps
2007. How to set graphics hardware acceleration back
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00129.htm

I'd also check your antivirus program. I had to shut down AVG's scan just
now because my entire system became totally unresponsive while it was
chugging along. Usually I have no problems with it, but ugh, it was a
nightmare this time.

 

[Patrick Schmid]

MS is investigating a PPT issue in which CPU utilization spikes while
typing and characters appear painfully slow due to that.
Could you please use Start, Run and type msinfo32 in there? Then File,
Save (takes about 10 mins), zip it up and email it to me so that I can
forward the information to MS?

Thanks,


Patrick Schmid
--------------
http://pschmid.net

I'm running Office 2007 Beta 2 on a Wondows XP SP2 Virtual Machine, and I am
simply not experiencing these types of issues.

I understand your hardware configuration is fine for Office 2003, but I
would at least try setting hardware acceleration back to see if it helps
2007. How to set graphics hardware acceleration back
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00129.htm

I'd also check your antivirus program. I had to shut down AVG's scan just
now because my entire system became totally unresponsive while it was
chugging along. Usually I have no problems with it, but ugh, it was a
nightmare this time.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/
PPTLive! Sept 17-20, 2006 http://www.pptlive.com

Hello everyone,

let me share some of mine experiences with two new Office apps. I like the
new UI and new OfficeArt features simply rock. Nevertheless I am troubles
with the performance. As soon as I add any picture or shape or effect to
the
slide in Powerpoint, the performance drops down drastically to a level
where
moving cursor from character to character takes 2 to 3 seconds. When I
add a
two a three pictures on a slide, the Powerpoint becomes virtually
unusable.
Excel is not doing much better, charts and any new features are very slow.
My Office XP and Office 2003 installations is running fast and fine so I
suspect that problem has to do with those two Office 2007 apps and not
with
my hardware configuration. Even Word 2007 is responsive enough. I hope
Microsoft will do some performance optimization before RTM otherwise new
Office is an impossibility for me.
Did anyone experience similar behavior to mine? Any advice on how to
resolve
the issues?


My computer hardware and software setup:
Windows XP Professional SP2
Celeron 4 1,7Ghz
786 MB RAM
40GB HDD
NVidia GeForce 4 MX440 64MB AGP 8x video card

Jan Sichula
(Slovak Republic)

 

[Echo S]

MS is investigating a PPT issue in which CPU utilization spikes while
typing and characters appear painfully slow due to that.
Could you please use Start, Run and type msinfo32 in there? Then File,
Save (takes about 10 mins), zip it up and email it to me so that I can
forward the information to MS?

Ah, interesting.

 

[Ira]

I am using Powerpoint 2007 beta for the first time tonight. I also find it
painfully slow when typing text and deleting characters. Are there any
updates/fixes since the chain of emails this past July?

MS is investigating a PPT issue in which CPU utilization spikes while
typing and characters appear painfully slow due to that.
Could you please use Start, Run and type msinfo32 in there? Then File,
Save (takes about 10 mins), zip it up and email it to me so that I can
forward the information to MS?

Ah, interesting.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/
PPTLive! Sept 17-20, 2006 http://www.pptlive.com

 

[Patrick Schmid]

Is your CPU going to 100% when you are typing in PPT?

Patrick Schmid
--------------
http://pschmid.net

I am using Powerpoint 2007 beta for the first time tonight. I also find it
painfully slow when typing text and deleting characters. Are there any
updates/fixes since the chain of emails this past July?

MS is investigating a PPT issue in which CPU utilization spikes while
typing and characters appear painfully slow due to that.
Could you please use Start, Run and type msinfo32 in there? Then File,
Save (takes about 10 mins), zip it up and email it to me so that I can
forward the information to MS?

Ah, interesting.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/
PPTLive! Sept 17-20, 2006 http://www.pptlive.com