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10.4: A workaround for slowdowns in updated Office 2004
Authored by: johnsawyercjs on Nov 13, '06 11:21:23PM

For anyone wondering why they don't see the Word slowdowns that some other see, it happens when you keep a large document open, on the order of about four megabytes or larger. I see it all the time, with a document on OS X topics and bugfixes I often open, that's about 9 meg now. I usually have to close it when it slows down the Mac, and slows down my work on other Word documents; processor time it eats up can go as high as 50%. I've seen this plenty even on a Quicksilver 800 MHz, running Office 2004 11.2.3, OS 10.4.8; now I have a Mirrored Drive Door dual 1.25 GHz, and I still see these delays, but not as much, but far more than I'd expect from a Mac like this. Shows how badly at least part of Word is programmed.



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