why are the applications in Office 2008 so slow to open

[JanetHudgins]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Power PC Word, Excel, Power Point all take about three minutes to open a document, etc the first time for the day. Why is this and is there something I can do about it?

Thanks

 

[Diane Ross]

Excel, Power Point all take about three minutes to open a document, etc
the first time for the day. Why is this and is there something I can do
about it?

See this link for options: http://bit.ly/dBPSB5

I see you are on a PowerPC. Since Office 2008 will be running on
Rosetta, you should expect it to be a bit slower. BTW, how much RAM do
you have installed and how much free space?

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq_topic/performance2.html>

 

[Michel Bintener]

This does not apply to this situation. Office 2008 is a Universal
Binary; it runs natively on PowerPC and Intel Macs. Rosetta is only used
if Office 2004 (or Office v.X) is used on an Intel Mac.

I believe there have been test reports indicating that Office 2008 is
generally slower on PowerPC Macs than it is on Intel Macs. There is not
really much that can be done about this. Even on Intel Macs, the speed
of Office 2008 does not really blow you away...