Slow display while typing

[jbl_967]

 

[jbl_967]

Maybe this time, the message body will show....

I have a 3.4 MB PPT document. It was created in PPT 2008 (SP1). When I type in the outline view, it takes up to a second for the display in the slide preview to show up. In some cases, there is a half second lag showing the text in the outline and a second or more showing the text in the slide pane.

If I open the same PPT document in Office 2007 on XP inside of Fusions, I do not have the problem.

The computer I am doing this on is a 4 core Mac Pro with 5BG of RAM. Given that, I expect to not to have to wait a second to draw text.

Has anyone run into this, does anyone have a fix?

 

[jbl_967]

No one has anything to add to this? Really? Same system, but PPT 2007 runs 10x faster in a VM than 2008 on Mac OS.

 

[Neuzy]

Hello - I am running almost the same set up and am experiencing the same issues. Powerpoint 2008 is a joke. If it weren't for the fact that my company has the majority of people on PCs I'd be using Keynote / Numbers and Pages for everything. What computers is Microsoft suing to test out their software?!

 

[jbl_967]

No kidding. If you have a CPU monitor up when running PowerPig you can see that it only uses one of the cores available. On my Mac Pro, there are 4, so PPT maxes out one CPU and uses it so inefficiently it can't even draw text in real time.

Consumers expect to actually be able to open and edit reasonably sized documents without having to got get coffee waiting for a sentence to draw on a simple PPT template. If MS can't write that software, it's time to look at iWork.

I do miss the days when MS came out with new versions of software that ran BETTER than the previous version. I guess those days are long gone.

 

[mbtoloczko]

I'm having the exact same problem with PowerPoint 2008. It can take
several seconds before a letter appears. Its pretty much impossible
to use PowerPoint in this condition.