Spinning beachball

[Rafael Montserrat]

OS10.4.9
iBookG4
Word2004

Hi,

I'm getting the Spinning beachball with every move in word I make and
word has slowed down. What to do?

Thanks,

Rafael

 

[CyberTaz]

Are you leaving Word launched for indefinite periods? Restart the program &
see if that improves the performance. Restarting the Mac every once in a
while doesn't hurt anything either, rather than relying on sleep.

If this doesn't apply or a restart doesn't help, run Repair Disk
Permissions, make sure Office is fully updated (you just mention Word 2004 -
is it at 11.3.3, 11.3.4?) and it might not be a bad idea to re-apply the
10.4.9 update using the Combo updater from the Apple site.

Further, have you installed any add-ins or other utilities that run in the
background? Any changes that took place around the same time you started to
notice the drop in performance?

If still no joy, post back with complete details.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Rafael Montserrat]

Thanks. I'll try those. Rafael

Are you leaving Word launched for indefinite periods? Restart the program &
see if that improves the performance. Restarting the Mac every once in a
while doesn't hurt anything either, rather than relying on sleep.

If this doesn't apply or a restart doesn't help, run Repair Disk
Permissions, make sure Office is fully updated (you just mention Word 2004 -
is it at 11.3.3, 11.3.4?) and it might not be a bad idea to re-apply the
10.4.9 update using the Combo updater from the Apple site.

Further, have you installed any add-ins or other utilities that run in the
background? Any changes that took place around the same time you started to
notice the drop in performance?

If still no joy, post back with complete details.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[John McGhie [MVP Word, Word Mac]]

Hey Rafael:

One more Bob forgot: "Maggie" the document (copy all except the last
paragraph mark into a clean blank document).

If you have done a lot of editing of that document, the internal structure
gets pretty frayed and Word has to do a lot of work to interpret the code.
By saving to a fresh new document, you force Word to re-create the document
and in doing so, clean up the internal code.

Hope this helps

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