Microsoft Office programs on High Sierra

[Kawawolf]

Hi all, I went and got a deal for the Microsoft office programs (Office, Excel, and PPT) through work and have them installed on my imac with High Sierra 10.13.3 installed. I've received about four updates for the programs since my initial install. Color me crazy, but I feel they've gotten slower to open and are not as responsive since I first installed them. Trying to open an Excel file that opens in two seconds on Linux takes upwards of eight or ten on this computer and the beach ball just spins along. For a simple file? Really?

Surely I can't be the only one here that has noticed this. I'm guessing its more to do with Office programming than HS. My imac has a fusion drive, not a full fledged SSD if that makes a difference.


Thanks for reading!
Kawa

 

[Superspeed500]

Trying to open an Excel file that opens in two seconds on Linux takes upwards of eight or ten on this computer and the beach ball just spins along.

Excel 2016 on my MBP 2010 with SSD uses 5 seconds to open a simple spreadsheet if excel is allready running. Closing the file and then reopening it without closing excel gives a loading time of 2 seconds.

What program do you use on your Linux computer? LibreOffice (The most common office program on Linux these days) might load on boot and therfor have quicker loading time. LibreOffice also tends to be quicker in my opinion.

 

[oldhifi]

MY 2011 Office loads pretty fast on my 2009 iMac

 

[Kawawolf]

Excel 2016 on my MBP 2010 with SSD uses 5 seconds to open a simple spreadsheet if excel is allready running. Closing the file and then reopening it without closing excel gives a loading time of 2 seconds.

What program do you use on your Linux computer? LibreOffice (The most common office program on Linux these days) might load on boot and therfor have quicker loading time. LibreOffice also tends to be quicker in my opinion.

Hm, the difference might be I'm loading the file cold....Microsoft Excel or Word has to boot and then open the file. If the program was still open, then yeah, I can get it to load in 3 seconds as well. I don't leave the program just open like that. I do wonder if the SSD versus fusion drive would make that huge a difference. Its considerable.

In Linux I use WPS office because it works better with the Microsoft files. We use Windows in the school, so I needed something with the best compatibility with that stuff.

 

[Gregg2]

I wouldn't leave Word or Excel open if I was not going to use them within a half hour or so. Often, when I've done that in the past, they are unresponsive when I try to open a file.

 

[flowrider]

OP, since you didn't state, assume you're talking about MS Office 2016, V16.9.1. What model iMac? Posting incomplete information leads to poor responses.

Lou

 

[OcelotWreak]

I have also found that the _format_ of the file being opened also causes large differences in Open times. Even opening a Word document in an older format (.doc vs .docx, etc.) will cause delays and a spinning beach ball while Word decides if it can remember how to open a Word doc from 10 years ago. (/s)