Word 2008 slowness + faded "dated" toolbars

[AJ98]

1. I run Leopard 10.5.2 on a 17" MacBook Pro w/ 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo, 4GB memory, and the faster optional hard drive. Despite all of this, Word 2008 sometimes opens (when doubleclicking on a document) more slowly than Word 2004. Why is this happening?

2. Much of the time, my toolbars, instead of showing the current font, font size, spaceing, etc., as Word 2004 always did, display previous settings, and only when clicking on each item in the toolbar (e.g., font size), does a menu appear showing a check mark next to the current setting. This is an unnecessary step that slows me down. How can fix this?

3. Finally, the toolbar sometimes appears "faded," and one cannot tell, for example, whether Bold is "on" at the moment. How can I fix this?

--Thanks!

 

[John McGhie]

1. I run Leopard 10.5.2 on a 17" MacBook Pro w/ 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo, 4GB memory,
and the faster optional hard drive. Despite all of this, Word 2008 sometimes
opens (when doubleclicking on a document) more slowly than Word 2004. Why is
this happening?

There's a conflict Apple introduced with OS 10.5.2. We're waiting on
Apple's fix for that.

2. Much of the time, my toolbars, instead of showing the current font, font
size, spaceing, etc., as Word 2004 always did, display previous settings, and
only when clicking on each item in the toolbar (e.g., font size), does a menu
appear showing a check mark next to the current setting. This is an
unnecessary step that slows me down. How can fix this?

I think this is the "Screen Refresh Bug". There's a service release due out
from Microsoft on March 11th which we hope will have a fix for this one.

3. Finally, the toolbar sometimes appears "faded," and one cannot tell, for
example, whether Bold is "on" at the moment. How can I fix this?

This may be the "Spaces" bug. Office 2008 is not compatible with Spaces.
Turn it off until we get a fix.

Hope this helps

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