Word and Excel 2007 SLOW on Vista

[Steve Vincent]

Hi,

I recently bought a new Dell Inspiron laptop from Best Buy, and also bought
MS Office Home/Student edition. The laptop is running Vista. Excel is
extremely slow and freezes ("not responding") with just about every editing
move I make. Same with Word. I saved-as to the 97-2003 format, and at first
it seemed to work fast, but then it started freezing again. It can take up
to 3 or 4 minutes just to change the font size in a cell. There isn't much
in the workbook (or document), just a simple table intended as a sign-up
sheet, with around 30 rows and two columns.

Things I have tried: I have opened the workbook and document with the
"repair" option. No change. I ran the installation disk again and ran the
Repair utility. Again, no change.

Does anyone have any suggestions of what to do to try and remedy this? Best
Buy included a free upgrade to Windows 7 when it comes out. Any opinions on
whether this is a Vista issue?

TIA,
Steve

 

[Steve Vincent]

Update: I just changed my default printer from a network printer downstairs
on our home wireless network, to CutePDF. This has "solved" the problem,
except for the fact that I would like my HP network printer to be the default
printer. This was never a problem on our previous laptops, only since
getting this Dell Inspiron with Vista and Office Home/Student 2007.

Why would having a network printer set as the default printer cause Office
2007 to run so extremely slow? Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly
appreciated.

TIA,
Steve

 

[Gordon]

Update: I just changed my default printer from a network printer
downstairs
on our home wireless network

Is this a "real" network printer or is it one that is connected to another
machine and is shared?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Update: I just changed my default printer from a network printer downstairs
on our home wireless network, to CutePDF. This has "solved" the problem,
except for the fact that I would like my HP network printer to be the default
printer. This was never a problem on our previous laptops, only since
getting this Dell Inspiron with Vista and Office Home/Student 2007.

Why would having a network printer set as the default printer cause Office
2007 to run so extremely slow? Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly
appreciated.

Known problem. I've no idea why, but the fix is pretty simple.
You can continue to use the network printer as your default; just make sure you
install the driver for it locally to the PC rather than using the driver over the
network.

How to install a local printer driver
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00605.htm

 

[Steve Vincent]

Thank you for your replies, I will try installing the printer driver locally.
And it is a shared printer on another PC on my home wireless network, not a
"network printer". Sorry for my misuse of terminology.

Steve

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thank you for your replies, I will try installing the printer driver locally.
And it is a shared printer on another PC on my home wireless network, not a
"network printer". Sorry for my misuse of terminology.

No problem ... I've misused it myself, I'm afraid.