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MS WORD

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asqy

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How does Ms Word work on your apple?

do you experience lag or any other nasties on your machine?

oh and can you tell me what machine you run

thanks 🙂
 
A little bit of typing lag and that's it. It runs really well IMO. Interestingly, I can't see any performance differences between my 800MHz G4 iBook and my new 1.8GHz G5 iMac.
 
mad jew said:
A little bit of typing lag and that's it. It runs really well IMO. Interestingly, I can't see any performance differences between my 800MHz G4 iBook and my new 1.8GHz G5 iMac.
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the typing lag gives me the horrors :\
 
sometimes it feels like typing on a daisywheel typewriter 😱😱 like when i was writing my EOY portfolio project for school, but other times its just fine. i don't use it much since textedit's often enough. powerpoint's a dog though
 
I hate that occasional lag so for something basic like an essay, I type the paper in a text editor (SubEthaEdit for me) and paste it into Word when I'm done so I can do some formatting.

OT: asqy, try not to called the computer itself apple. The company that makes it is Apple. The computer itself is a Mac. So the question is how well MS Word works on everybody's Macs.
 
Runs fine on my 1.2 Ghz iBook. The mac version is probably better than the windoze version. 😱

But it's still Word, which I hate. Don't know why, but I just never got the knack of it. Very counter-intuitive, imo. And it's only a word processor for font sake. Photoshop is more intuitive. End rant.
 
i find it fine and i type pretty quickly.

i think its widely accepted that the mac version is better than the windows one.
 
I don't really see any lag in typing unless I have loads of programs open, in turns of the program it works fast, quite happy with it. I have started to use Pages a lot more for the basic essays and get no lag at all.
 
russed said:
i find it fine and i type pretty quickly.

i think its widely accepted that the mac version is better than the windows one.
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a) Love your Av.

b) I use MS Word and MS Excel most of the day at work and I’ve got to say that there are features in MS Word 2002 that I miss from the Mac version just as there are features in the Mac version I’d like to have and I’m sure will be in the next Windows release.

Unfortunately I can’t use the Mac version of Word as I’d simply be driven mad by the typing lag and beach-balling. I don’t think I could out-type a secretary but I’ve had times when I’ll be typing away, look up at the screen (I don’t touch-type) and only see the first few letters of the two lines I’ve typed with a beach-ball and a couple of seconds pause before the rest of the text appears.

I find spell checking on the fly is painful as well.
 
mcarnes said:
Runs fine on my 1.2 Ghz iBook. The mac version is probably better than the windoze version. 😱
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Yes, it can be laggy on both platforms. Word on Windows has more of a jerky hurry-up-and-wait kind of visual response, while the Mac version seems to be a smoother kind of tardiness 😀 I find the Windows flavor of the lag more distracting, but that's just me.
But it's still Word, which I hate. Don't know why, but I just never got the knack of it. Very counter-intuitive, imo. And it's only a word processor for font sake. Photoshop is more intuitive. End rant.
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Yep, but i've gone through too many "Word compatible" programs over the years that produced malformed documents when opened on the real thing, or that couldn't properly read real Word docs, to worry much about that any more.
 
iMeowbot said:
Yes, it can be laggy on both platforms. Word on Windows has more of a jerky hurry-up-and-wait kind of visual response, while the Mac version seems to be a smoother kind of tardiness 😀 I find the Windows flavor of the lag more distracting, but that's just me....
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I'd say it is just you 'cause I've been using word on Windows since I had a 25mhz Compaq and it never lagged like it does on my 1.8Ghz iMac. It's got to be the number 1 disappointment since I've owned a Mac.
 
My Windows machine has zero lag on word :\ p4 1.9

However the 1ghtz 640 mb ram emacs at uni word is hangy and laggy. Like typing at a decent speed and it will lag.

It is very annoying :\
 
I experience the lag all the time on my 1.33 GHz iBook with v.X -- about the same as my 400 MHz TiBook. Drives me nuts. Bizarre things seem to affect it. Quartz smoothing ON seems to reduce it. So does Page Layout view. Worst is Normal view with smoothing off and spell/grammar check on.
 
mcarnes said:
Runs fine on my 1.2 Ghz iBook. The mac version is probably better than the windoze version. 😱

But it's still Word, which I hate. Don't know why, but I just never got the knack of it. Very counter-intuitive, imo. And it's only a word processor for font sake. Photoshop is more intuitive. End rant.
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I have to agree. I use the Windows version at work and I much prefer the Mac version that I get to use at home.
 
i dont doubt that the mac version is very nice ...

but does the thing lag or what
 
It can lag, but not all the time. Larger documents seem to get it more.
Just finished a 11000 word masters on my G3 500 284MB RAM on Word 2004 and all fine.
Lagged sometimes, but not for more than a couple of seconds at more. Lagged maybe 1/100th of the time or less.

Prefer it to Windows versions.
 
It lags once and a while on the Quicksilver in my sig, but only if I have like iChat, Adium, Mail, etc. all open at the same time. I just usually type things in TextEdit unless I need the features in Word.
 
Reading through this thread we’ve got people with Word v.X and 2004 and a range of machines from G3’s to G5’s yet there isn’t an obvious pattern to who’s lagging and who’s not. What gives when v.X is as slow on my G5 as on my G3 and 2004 isn’t much better yet the Windows version by comparison flies on a 400mhz Celeron and Win98?
 
i do note that the ancient imacs (500mhz) with word 98 or something are perfect and lag free...weird...
 
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