PowerPoint too slow

[soaringwings]

I have a new MacBook Pro with the Intel processor & Mac OS X 10.4.8.
When I start a PowerPoint program it takes approximately 3 seconds per
slide to startup and PP frequently quits unexpectedly. Most slides are
..ppt photos. I finally gave up and used my Dell PC for my last
presentation. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Have you installed any updates for powerpoint itself?

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
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[Jim Gordon MVP]

A similar problem was recently posted to this group. It turned out that the
pictures were linked and were being brought in over a network. The network
latency turned out to be the bottleneck.

Can you tell us more about the pictures, their file types and sizes, and
their locations?

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

I have a new MacBook Pro with the Intel processor & Mac OS X 10.4.8.
When I start a PowerPoint program it takes approximately 3 seconds per
slide to startup and PP frequently quits unexpectedly. Most slides are
.ppt photos. I finally gave up and used my Dell PC for my last

presentation. Any help would be appreciated.

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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[Ham Javelin]

You must realize that Office 2004 is not a Universal Binary, therefore
it will run slower on an Intel based Mac versus a PowerPC based system.
I have Office 2004 running on both my desktop G5 and laptop G4, and it
performs acceptably. That being said, Office 2004 is a dog compaired to
Office v.X. I don't know what 'under-the-hood' changes MS made between
these two versions, but in my experience, Office v.X is much faster
than 2004.

Microsoft; one step forward, two steps back.

Cheers.

 

[johnclement]

I totally agreed that MS should have improve the standard the office
sofeware they write for Mac

for the MS off.2004 ppt to work on Intel base mac book is much slower
than ppt.work on Window pc
itself, not withstanding that my window PC is a slower processor and
smaller ram as compare to the Mac book i got lately.
Simply feature of ptt. on Mac such as select and move a image ,it take
too long time to response.
and less functional feature as compare to the later.

I was told to re load my Ms office , i am seeking any better solution ?
If any.
Thanks

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi John,

The next release of Office for Mac will be a dual binary. Hopefully this
code will work much faster because it won't be going through the Rosetta
translator.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

I totally agreed that MS should have improve the standard the office
sofeware they write for Mac

for the MS off.2004 ppt to work on Intel base mac book is much slower
than ppt.work on Window pc
itself, not withstanding that my window PC is a slower processor and
smaller ram as compare to the Mac book i got lately.
Simply feature of ptt. on Mac such as select and move a image ,it take
too long time to response.
and less functional feature as compare to the later.

I was told to re load my Ms office , i am seeking any better solution ?
If any.
Thanks

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
MVP info