Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / January 2006

Hi, I have installed MS Office on my powerbook G4 with 1024 MB system
memory. I did not - and will not - install Entourage nor the virtual PC
thingie. I work with relatively large presentations with graphs etc.
but no mammoths with lots of pictures, multicolour backgrounds etc.,
pretty straightforward stuff. in general I think everything looks great
and switching from pc to mac ppt has not been a problem. My issues : I
find Powerpoint extremely slow (much slower than on my PC's). Quick
pageing, loading slide sorters (...the metafile thing!!!),  and saving
takes forever. Especially saving, intermediate and autosaves are a
pain. When I look at my system memory I can see that it eats up a lot
of memory, often more than 600 MB active...even for  very modest
presentations. This seems like a lot. Is there a smart solution to
speed things up? I often work on files that are mailed to me by
colleagues (France, UK, US, Germany), and we work at these files and
send them back and forth (i.e. different spell checks, languages...can
that be a reason??).
I have been using ppt since the very beginning, so far always on pc,
never had any particular issues and very pleased with it generally, but
this is really irritating. It upsets me and slows me down.

I have checked my system and everything is humming - I re-installed
Office - but nothing has changed.
Any good advice? Mega thanks!