I have word v.X, which hardly ever freezes, but whenever I switch apps, the toolbar freezes: all the icons disappear. Kinda defeats the purpose, having a toolbar when the icons are invisible.
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How often does M$Word freeze on your mac?
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Ironic, but word hangs up on my Windows machine all the time.
If you try to shut down the computer with word open, your computer will NOT shut down. At least twice I've hit shut down while in class, closed my laptop lid, got home to a burning hot laptop to find out that the program was unresponsive
If you try to shut down the computer with word open, your computer will NOT shut down. At least twice I've hit shut down while in class, closed my laptop lid, got home to a burning hot laptop to find out that the program was unresponsive
Word never freezes, but I have some problems with PP. It doesn't freeze but it's slow and the animation is choppy.
GodBless said:
1. On the Insert menu, point to AutoText, and then click AutoText.
2. Uncheck the first box.
That's all I did and I haven't had any crashes.
brap said:
That's happened to me too at very inopportune moments. You can circumvent that total loss of work since last save by copy/pasting everything in the document and transferring the text somewhere else.
Original poster: downloading the update for Office X from MS results in far better reliability and much fewer crashes.
GULCkid said:
It doesn't usually freeze but it does crash. What is even worse is any time I'm running Micro$oft products they hog the CPU and the processor usage in Activity monitor shoots to the top. Bad Bill! Bad!
Word has been nothing but good to me - only when there are links to excel spreadsheets do i have issues.
I've had Word crash on me probably 4 or 5 times in the last year. It's usually the same problem you have. I usually just Grab an image of Word, then restart Word - I usually only lose as much time as it takes Word to start up again. I just type everything over from the image after class.iSaint said:
None of the Office v.X apps have crashed on either my imac G3 600 or my eMac 1.25Ghz.. The only thing that i could say that Word tends to pause every once and a while and refuses to accept any input. However if you wait a couple seconds, it comes right back, missing whatever you tried to do when it "paused". It seems to happen most during Spell Checks.
Microsoft Suite
these apps never crash for me, but i have to say i don't like them and wish i had waited for pages/keynote combo. everyone says mac word is a great program, i hate it, but i guess it must be the best one out there.
i'm thinking of getting a simple word processor like Jotz because i feel word is just so bloated.
of course, there seems to be no replacement for excel.
and one more thing, i feel that for working between two platforms (win and mac) like i do, ms office is a must have, sad to say.
these apps never crash for me, but i have to say i don't like them and wish i had waited for pages/keynote combo. everyone says mac word is a great program, i hate it, but i guess it must be the best one out there.
i'm thinking of getting a simple word processor like Jotz because i feel word is just so bloated.
of course, there seems to be no replacement for excel.
and one more thing, i feel that for working between two platforms (win and mac) like i do, ms office is a must have, sad to say.