Re: Why is Word 2004 running so slow?

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Well I have a 30-page document that I am working with and there is a very
large table of data at about page 8. As soon as I get to page 8 with the
table, scrolling slows to a crawl.

If I put my cursor on the screen and try to scroll down with the arrow keys,
it is just as bad, and what ends up happening is there is such a delay
between presing the keys or the scroll bar and the actual movement that when
it does start scrolling, it ends up doing it for quite sometime before
stopping.

"Jeffrey Weston [MSFT]" <jeffw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uuazUl5OFHA.1176@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hey Dave,
>
> Thanks for posting. Is it possible you could be more specific as to what
> things you are doing when you notice Word under performing?
>
> The "clicking to scroll" is a good example. Does this happen consistently
> across all documents? Or just the larger ones?
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Jeffrey Weston
> Mac Word Test
> Macintosh Business Unit
> Microsoft
>
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>
> "Dave Leer" <dreeleer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:e89qjezOFHA.4028@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Using MS Word 2004, on my G5 with 1gb of ram, the program seems to run
>> really slow. There is even a delay between clicking to scroll, and when
>> it actually starts scrolling through the document.
>>
>> Is there anyway to speed up the program? Is this a known issue, or is it
>> a setting on my end?
>>
>
>


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