slow word

[Bob Graef]

I installed Office:mac 2001, which I purchased from my college bookstore, in
November. It worked fine for a while, now Word is incredibly slow. I
suspected a macrovirus and sent Norton Antivirus (current version) in to
look. None found. Any suggestions? Should I uninstall Office and re-install?
I'm a little worried about introducing corruption by doing that. What should
I do? Many Thanks, bob

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]]

Hi Bob,

I installed Office:mac 2001, which I purchased from my college bookstore, in
November. It worked fine for a while, now Word is incredibly slow. I
suspected a macrovirus and sent Norton Antivirus (current version) in to
look. None found. Any suggestions? Should I uninstall Office and re-install?
I'm a little worried about introducing corruption by doing that. What should
I do? Many Thanks, bob

There are a few things you could try. First make sure Office 2001 is up
to date on your Mac. You'll find updates on the www.mactopia.com site.
The make sure the "fast save" option is disabled in the Word
preferences. That usually really slows down the whole thing (the
opposite fo what you;d expect with a name like that :->>>).
Make sure Virtual Memory is on (Memory ontrol panel) and reboot if it
was off. VM offers a much better memory management and applciations like
Office greatly benefit from that.
Then allocate more RAM to the applications (if you have enough RAM of
course (copmmand-i on the application icon from the Finder).

I hope this will help,


Corentin

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word]]

Hi Bob:

The first place I would look is for Add-Ins. EndNote's Cite While you Write
and Adobe's PDF maker are well known culprits: if you have either of those,
get them out.

A corrupt Normal Template can do it. Re-name your Normal template and try
it. If it doesn't fix it you can re-name it back if there was anything in
there you wanted to keep.

Hope this helps

I installed Office:mac 2001, which I purchased from my college bookstore, in
November. It worked fine for a while, now Word is incredibly slow. I
suspected a macrovirus and sent Norton Antivirus (current version) in to
look. None found. Any suggestions? Should I uninstall Office and re-install?
I'm a little worried about introducing corruption by doing that. What should
I do? Many Thanks, bob

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