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borealis60

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Apr 28, 2008 11:44 AM

Intel Based Laptops Running Slow Using MS Office 2004 Apps

I have two Intel based macbooks duo core 1.83 and 2.16, both with 2GB memory. Running MS Office 2004. MS Office 2004 was running great on previous PowerPC laptops. I maxed out the memory on these two laptops as PPT and Excel were running extremely slow. PPT would take up to 8 minutes to save a 13 mg file, and Excel was taking abnormally long to load. I maxed out both laptops with memory in hopes that it would resolve this issue. I checked the startup folder and there are no third party applications in the folder. I've repaired permissions. Looking online hasn't been very helpful. I've come across posts with similar issues, but no resolutions.

Supposedly, Rosetta should handle the conversion on Intel based machines, but I am not totally convinced. I did purchase MS Office 2008 which is universal (Intel and PowerPC), but I am a little leery of installing it as from what I've read, is lacking on some of the functionality of MS Office 2004.

If there is anyone out there that can set me straight on this issue, I would greatly appreciate any insight you have to offer. Thanks in advanced.

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smax013

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Jul 6, 2007

1. Apr 28, 2008 1:48 PM

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Re: Intel Based Laptops Running Slow Using MS Office 2004 Apps

borealis60 wrote:I have two Intel based macbooks duo core 1.83 and 2.16, both with 2GB memory. Running MS Office 2004. MS Office 2004 was running great on previous PowerPC laptops. I maxed out the memory on these two laptops as PPT and Excel were running extremely slow. PPT would take up to 8 minutes to save a 13 mg file, and Excel was taking abnormally long to load. I maxed out both laptops with memory in hopes that it would resolve this issue. I checked the startup folder and there are no third party applications in the folder. I've repaired permissions. Looking online hasn't been very helpful. I've come across posts with similar issues, but no resolutions.

Supposedly, Rosetta should handle the conversion on Intel based machines, but I am not totally convinced. I did purchase MS Office 2008 which is universal (Intel and PowerPC), but I am a little leery of installing it as from what I've read, is lacking on some of the functionality of MS Office 2004.

If there is anyone out there that can set me straight on this issue, I would greatly appreciate any insight you have to offer. Thanks in advanced.

You should not double post...because you might get people responding in two different places. To that, I already responded to your post when you posted in an already running thread here: MS Office on Intel iMac. I am not particularly inclined to type it again.

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