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Saint_Blaise

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Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing high CPU usage when using Microsoft Word. The entry appears as fa000000125.resources.office.net in Activity Monitor. It ends when I restart Word but eventually reappears.
 
Had the same issue, tried as suggested and now the CPU hungry process is tamed (or at least I can't see it anymore under the top 3 in activity monitor).

Thanks bogdanw
 
Unfortunately I have to confirm this (looked good the first time). Not only did the fans spin up but the process consumed 40GB of memory (memory stress went red for the obvious reason).
 
There are some other values that can be disabled from Terminal:
Code:
defaults write com.microsoft.office DiagnosticDataTypePreference ZeroDiagnosticData 
defaults write com.microsoft.office ConnectedOfficeExperiencesPreference -boolean false 
defaults write com.microsoft.office OfficeExperiencesAnalyzingContentPreference -boolean false
defaults write com.microsoft.office OfficeExperiencesDownloadingContentPreference -boolean false
defaults write com.microsoft.office SendAllTelemetryEnabled -boolean false

"Use preferences to manage privacy controls for Office for Mac"
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-apps/privacy/mac-privacy-preferences
 
I was experiencing the same issue on my work computer (M4 Air 15"). I disabled the optional connected experience, and Memory usage dropped significantly.

Thank you!
 
Yes, same problem. Latest version is 16.106.1 (26021521) (as of Feb 18) and that didn't fix it. Killing the process in Activity Monitor doesn't work - it just respawns. Restarting Word fixes it for a while. M4 Air 24GB.
 
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