Word saves painfully slow after 11.3.2 update!

[Wkw]

Hello,
After applying the legit 11.3.2 update to Office 2004, Microsoft Word
now saves painfully slow.

Using Save or Save As causes a beachball and requires me to wait about
a minute to save.

I'm talking about documents with no more than a single sentence, on a
MacBook with 2gb of RAM and 35gb hard drive free.

I've already tried trashing my preferences, to no avail.

Anyone seen this behavior or similar? Thank you!

Looking forward,
WKW

 

[Wkw]

Hi Bob!
Yes I did. I also tried zapping my PRAM, and trashing my prefs.

Here's the fix:
I just noticed that when I save a Word doc, a message appears at the
bottom of the document windows saying "Word is connecting to the
printer..."

So I believe I've figured out what's wrong:

Early last week I added a new printer using Printer Setup Utilty. It
had some God-awful name like ODBP @ zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz. Don't ask me,
it's just an office printer I accessed through the wireless network
here. Problem is, there are two separate wireless networks in the
office, and that goofy ODBP printer was on the one I'm not normally
connected to.

So whenever I went to save or print, I got this tremendous lag as Word
(and Excel) tried to find that frakkin' printer.

Ok, problem solved. Both Word and Excel are back to full opertaing
speed! Beware of adding a new default printer from a different
network.

Peace,
WKW

 

[CyberTaz]

Glad you got it sorted - that has been a quirk of Word's since day one. It
always needs to locate a printer driver in order to function & if it can't
find what it's looking for... Well, you see what happens

Thanks for posting the fix - perhaps it will be useful to others.

Happy Holidays

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

 

[Elliott Roper]

Hi Bob!
Yes I did. I also tried zapping my PRAM, and trashing my prefs.

Here's the fix:
I just noticed that when I save a Word doc, a message appears at the
bottom of the document windows saying "Word is connecting to the
printer..."

So I believe I've figured out what's wrong:

Early last week I added a new printer using Printer Setup Utilty. It
had some God-awful name like ODBP @ zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz. Don't ask me,
it's just an office printer I accessed through the wireless network
here. Problem is, there are two separate wireless networks in the
office, and that goofy ODBP printer was on the one I'm not normally
connected to.

So whenever I went to save or print, I got this tremendous lag as Word
(and Excel) tried to find that frakkin' printer.

Ok, problem solved. Both Word and Excel are back to full opertaing
speed! Beware of adding a new default printer from a different
network.

Peace,
WKW

...and Goodwill...

For similar reasons, don't give Word a chance to read or write files
from a device --on the network or otherwise-- that is not always
present. That sometimes includes recently visited files in your Project
Gallery.
Somewhere between OS X and Office there is a lacuna while its absence
is re-discovered.

I'll blame OS X for this one; have you ever down-arrowed through your
iDisk in the Finder? I do hope the programmer of that is suitably
embarrassed.

I'm having a grumpy day. Sorry.

 

[Phillip Jones]

As far as I know The recent update to 11.3.2 only updated PowerPoint and
Entourage. Neither Excel Nor Word show an update past 11.3

Hi Bob!
Yes I did. I also tried zapping my PRAM, and trashing my prefs.

Here's the fix:
I just noticed that when I save a Word doc, a message appears at the
bottom of the document windows saying "Word is connecting to the
printer..."

So I believe I've figured out what's wrong:

Early last week I added a new printer using Printer Setup Utilty. It
had some God-awful name like ODBP @ zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz. Don't ask me,
it's just an office printer I accessed through the wireless network
here. Problem is, there are two separate wireless networks in the
office, and that goofy ODBP printer was on the one I'm not normally
connected to.

So whenever I went to save or print, I got this tremendous lag as Word
(and Excel) tried to find that frakkin' printer.

Ok, problem solved. Both Word and Excel are back to full opertaing
speed! Beware of adding a new default printer from a different
network.

Peace,
WKW

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[Elliott Roper]

As far as I know The recent update to 11.3.2 only updated PowerPoint and
Entourage. Neither Excel Nor Word show an update past 11.3

That's what it looks like, because of the dodgy way Microsoft updates
version numbers of its applications. If you check on the update
download site, you are supposed to determine the version by looking at
the version number of /Applications/Microsoft Office
2004/Office/Microsoft Component Plugin.

Is that clear as mud? I don't blame you. It makes sense if Microsoft
Word makes use of that component. Its behaviour will have changed as a
result. And if Excel does too? What version number should Excel have?

If the fragment of an application Microsoft declares to be the whole
application is not updated, is the application updated in the eye of
the user?

On the other hand, it does telly you that you could get an earlier
version of Word or Excel from a rubbish skip somewhere, and it would
work as an updated one. Useful? Hnnh!