Re: Slow Mac Word 2004 - a possible solution?

Hi Pitch,

I received the document you sent me. For the benefit of others reading
this, it's a simple 17 page document using Headings 1, 2, 3 and Body Text.
It contains no graphics at all, just a couple of hyperlinks. It is set to
Outline View.

I went back to your original post and looked at the results you found after
"sterilizing" a different, 10 page document. You said:

> In Outline view, this 10-page document took paused a full
> one second in order to scroll down. Scrolling back up was
> instantaneous, but scrolling down took a full 1 second each and every
> time.
> Bolding was a trip. I highlight a word, hit Command-B, and voilà,
> another 1 second pause. Italics (Command-I) was a little less of a
> pause.

I made a copy of your document for test purposes and tried scrolling and
bolding. There was no delay in either case. I'm on a G5 iMac with 1 GB of
RAM, which is less powerful than your machine.

Here's what I'm forced to conclude: The problems you are experiencing are
not inherent in Word; there is most likely a conflict, however, between
something in your system and Word.

One thing you never mentioned in your first post was whether or not you
considered third-part software as a possible cause of the slowdowns in Word.
There are known conflicts between various versions of Word and Adobe
PDFMaker, EndNote¹s Cite While you Write (CWYW) and WindowShade. There are
undoubtedly others as well.

Try this: Quit Word and open Word¹s Startup folder: /Applications/Microsoft
Office 2004/Office/Startup/Word. Drag the contents to the Desktop. If the
problem disappears, add them back in one by one until you find the culprit.

If that doesn't help, post back and we'll keep working on it.

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On 4/26/05 11:43 AM, in article
1114540995.727013.206630@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Pitch"
<pitchblackcoffee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Beth and Matt,
>
> sorry for the pause. I forgot to check back to this post for the past
> few days.
>
> I would love to give you this document. If you email me directly, I
> will zip it up and send it to you. I'm at PitchBlackCoffee. That's a
> GMail address.
>

.

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