Re: SLOW typing response time using Mac Office 2008

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There are one or two things that could cause this.

You may have left the Progress Window open in Entourage. There's a but that
will cause this (but I did not think it affected OS 10.4)

You may have a corrupt document.

Or you may be out of memory.

Reboot to clear out your memory and see if that changes anything.

Start Activity Monitor and have a look to see if anything is hogging your
processor.

Close all Word documents, create a new blank document, and try again. If
it's OK in the blank document, the other document you have is corrupt.

Copy all but the last paragraph mark to a new document and save as a new
file name. See if that fixes it.

Come back and tell us what you found.

Hope this helps


On 20/01/08 10:28 AM, in article ee897ad.-1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"MacDawg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <MacDawg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

System: 15" PowerBook G4, 1.5 GHz Power PC, 2 GB RAM, OS X 10.4.11

I installed Mac Office 2008 yesterday, and there is a LONG delay between my
typing and the text appearing on the screen. This is not an issue with other
programs nor when I was using Office 2004.

Anyone else having this problem? Any solutions?

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