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Mac Forum / Applications / Word / December 2006Word saves painfully slow after 11.3.2 update!
Hello, After applying the legit 11.3.2 update to Office 2004, Microsoft Word now saves painfully slow. Using Save or Save As causes a beachball and requires me to wait about a minute to save. I'm talking about documents with no more than a single sentence, on a MacBook with 2gb of RAM and 35gb hard drive free. I've already tried trashing my preferences, to no avail. Anyone seen this behavior or similar? Thank you! Looking forward, WKW Did you repair disk permissions after applying the update? Regards |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 12/27/06 1:14 PM, in article 1167243268.169901.62830@h40g2000cwb.googlegroups.com, "Wkw" <bekwkw@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > After applying the legit 11.3.2 update to Office 2004, Microsoft Word [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Looking forward, > WKW Hi Bob! Yes I did. I also tried zapping my PRAM, and trashing my prefs. Here's the fix: I just noticed that when I save a Word doc, a message appears at the bottom of the document windows saying "Word is connecting to the printer..." So I believe I've figured out what's wrong: Early last week I added a new printer using Printer Setup Utilty. It had some God-awful name like ODBP @ zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz. Don't ask me, it's just an office printer I accessed through the wireless network here. Problem is, there are two separate wireless networks in the office, and that goofy ODBP printer was on the one I'm not normally connected to. So whenever I went to save or print, I got this tremendous lag as Word (and Excel) tried to find that frakkin' printer. Ok, problem solved. Both Word and Excel are back to full opertaing speed! Beware of adding a new default printer from a different network. Peace, WKW > Did you repair disk permissions after applying the update? > [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > Looking forward, > > WKW Glad you got it sorted - that has been a quirk of Word's since day one. It always needs to locate a printer driver in order to function & if it can't find what it's looking for... Well, you see what happens :-) Thanks for posting the fix - perhaps it will be useful to others. Happy Holidays Regards |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 12/27/06 1:43 PM, in article 1167245000.897645.196030@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com, "Wkw" <bekwkw@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Bob! > Yes I did. I also tried zapping my PRAM, and trashing my prefs. [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] >>> Looking forward, >>> WKW > Hi Bob! > Yes I did. I also tried zapping my PRAM, and trashing my prefs. [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > Peace, > WKW ..and Goodwill... For similar reasons, don't give Word a chance to read or write files from a device --on the network or otherwise-- that is not always present. That sometimes includes recently visited files in your Project Gallery. Somewhere between OS X and Office there is a lacuna while its absence is re-discovered. I'll blame OS X for this one; have you ever down-arrowed through your iDisk in the Finder? I do hope the programmer of that is suitably embarrassed. I'm having a grumpy day. Sorry.  SignatureTo de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248 As far as I know The recent update to 11.3.2 only updated PowerPoint and Entourage. Neither Excel Nor Word show an update past 11.3 > Hi Bob! > Yes I did. I also tried zapping my PRAM, and trashing my prefs. [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] >>> Looking forward, >>> WKW Signature------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phillip M. Jones, CET |LIFE MEMBER: VPEA ETA-I, NESDA, ISCET, Sterling 616 Liberty Street |Who's Who. PHONE:276-632-5045, FAX:276-632-0868 Martinsville Va 24112 |pjones@kimbanet.com, ICQ11269732, AIM pjonescet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If it's "fixed", don't "break it"! mailto:pjones@kimbanet.com <http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/default.htm> <http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/90th_Birthday/index.htm> <http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/Fulcher/default.html> <http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/Harris/default.htm> <http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/Jones/default.htm> <http://www.vpea.org> > As far as I know The recent update to 11.3.2 only updated PowerPoint and > Entourage. Neither Excel Nor Word show an update past 11.3 That's what it looks like, because of the dodgy way Microsoft updates version numbers of its applications. If you check on the update download site, you are supposed to determine the version by looking at the version number of /Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Microsoft Component Plugin. Is that clear as mud? I don't blame you. It makes sense if Microsoft Word makes use of that component. Its behaviour will have changed as a result. And if Excel does too? What version number should Excel have? If the fragment of an application Microsoft declares to be the whole application is not updated, is the application updated in the eye of the user? On the other hand, it does telly you that you could get an earlier version of Word or Excel from a rubbish skip somewhere, and it would work as an updated one. Useful? Hnnh! SignatureTo de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248 |
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