"Save As" dialog taking a long time to display

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Mark O'Brien - 30 Dec 2005 17:09 GMT

Most recently, in trying to save a Word document using the "Save as.."
dialog, it took several minutes to display the dialog box. All the while,
the SPOD was spinning away in Word. I could use other apps, even other
Office apps (Entourage, Excel), but not Word.

Is this a known problem (hopefully with a known solution)???

Mark

Office 2004 11.2, OS X 10.4.3

P.S. I just noticed it's a problem with the "File, Open" dialog as well, in
Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. But once I've used either one of the dialogs,
there's no delay using either one of them afterwards during that session.

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D - 31 Dec 2005 00:03 GMT

> Most recently, in trying to save a Word document using the "Save as.."
> dialog, it took several minutes to display the dialog box. All the while,
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> Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. But once I've used either one of the dialogs,
> there's no delay using either one of them afterwards during that session.

Go to your .Mac prefs and the iDisk tab. If iDisk syncing is on turn it
off. Then try the save as etc. Many people find that iDisk syncing
slows this sort of thing down. I Expect the apps are checking out all
the places they could save to before displaying the dialogue.

Cheers

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Mark O'Brien - 31 Dec 2005 05:30 GMT

On 12/30/05 7:03 PM, in article
1135982483.836820.171210@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, "D"
<ukmacposts@creative-industry.co.uk> wrote:

>> Most recently, in trying to save a Word document using the "Save as.."
>> dialog, it took several minutes to display the dialog box. All the while,
[quoted text clipped - 17 lines]
>
> Cheers

That seems to have rectified it. Thanks, D!

Mark

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"Save As" dialog taking a long time to display