MS office is EXTREMELY slow on my MBP :(

[sevimli]

It has been over 2 months since I got my MBP. I have to use MS office for making posters, presentations etc. But it is extremely slow, not smooth! I have a power point file, i really cannot drag pictures in it, it just hangs, sometimes freezes. It really is annoying me. Almost same for the WORD files. Cannot smoothly edit/read word files. scrolling down is taking forever

I've tried everything, nothing changed. Like fresh installation of OS and office. Disk defragmentation, disk utility etc.

Am i missing something here???


PS. my mbp is a 2.4SR 4gb ram.

 

[swiftaw]

Office is not a universal application, so it's an old powerPC app running under rosetta.

That'll make it slow.

 

[sevimli]

Office is not a universal application, so it's an old powerPC app running under rosetta.

That'll make it slow.

Thanks, but I do know it, I used the same ms office on a macbook 1.83ghz, it wasn't like that.

Also all the professors and lecturers use it, so if it is always like this, how can they bear with it?

 

[netdog]

Office is not a universal application, so it's an old powerPC app running under rosetta.

That'll make it slow.

Not extremely slow.

Do you have enough free space on your hard drive?

 

[sevimli]

Not extremely slow.

Do you have enough free space on your hard drive?

~80gb is empty on my hdd.


Parallels also works slower compare to my old 1.83 macbook w/ 2gb ram.

 

[CanadaRAM]

You have something badly wrong with your OS or your Office installation, Can't tell from here what it is.

Suggest stripping out every trace of Office, and then reinstalling it from the CDs.

Oh - Also try removing each of your RAM modules in turn and running with just one, to see if it is bad RAM. Run Apple Hardware Test.

 

[sevimli]

You have something badly wrong with your OS or your Office installation, Can't tell from here what it is.

Suggest stripping out every trace of Office, and then reinstalling it from the CDs.

Oh - Also try removing each of your RAM modules in turn and running with just one, to see if it is bad RAM. Run Apple Hardware Test.

Thanks alot,
Actually i did almost eveything you said except removing&testing ram modules.

 

[Kendall015]

This will actually help:

Quit all Office 2004 applications and then drag the file
/your user folder/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office Font Cache (11)
to the Trash. Then empty the trash.

From: http://www.macworld.com/2006/02/features/softwarespeed/index.php

 

[72930]

If it stays slow I would recommend NeoOffice highly, as it is Universal. Is there a problem with other Rosetta apps?