And dangerous. IME it has corrupted files when they've been saved in the 2003/4 format.
Powerpoint 2008 does a good job of shagging presentations. Things like boxes reset to 'resize automatically', not funny if you've used boxes to draw something.
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Office:Mac 2008 = slow
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And dangerous. IME it has corrupted files when they've been saved in the 2003/4 format.
Powerpoint 2008 does a good job of shagging presentations. Things like boxes reset to 'resize automatically', not funny if you've used boxes to draw something.
Office 2008 is indeed very slow, but Ive had minor success with basic compatibility. Most documents open and save properly, however there have been a few documents that either wouldnt open or were mangled by this application. That's pretty unacceptable considering these problems do NOT arise EVER (for me) with Office 2007. Obviously, I prefer 2003, but have moved to 2007 because many people are using the newer formats and I have to stay up-to-date and compatable with as many documents as possible.
Short story: I regret purchasing Office:mac 2008. I can just use NeoOffice for free if I just want "near" compatability.
Short story: I regret purchasing Office:mac 2008. I can just use NeoOffice for free if I just want "near" compatability.
If you need to read/write basic .doc files, just use Bean. Its lightweight and opens most of my docs in 1 sec.
I use pages if I need more features. I use word 08 when I know for sure that the doc is going to be complicated and also will go out to a large number of people that need max compatibility.
I use pages if I need more features. I use word 08 when I know for sure that the doc is going to be complicated and also will go out to a large number of people that need max compatibility.
12 seconds for fresh open on late 2007 MBP with 4GB RAM.
Unacceptable. Extremely slow and annoying. Getting a doc up and typing text should not take 12 seconds on a modern laptop. Period. It's not me, it's not my laptop, it's the code. If the MBU doesn't realize that they wrote something that is very slow and unresponsive, then that just makes them look even worse. They ought not need the users to point out what is absurdly obvious to any rational human being upon the first launch of their flagship product.
Loosing VBA was really, really bad. There is almost no point in using Office for Mac anymore. Why bother? You can easily do your work in iWork and save it in a compatible format (for the average user anyway).
Office in parallels loads much faster than Office for Mac. Go figure.
I also have a early 2008 Mac Pro dual 3GZ with 10GB RAM. It's slow on that too for crying out loud.
Unacceptable. Extremely slow and annoying. Getting a doc up and typing text should not take 12 seconds on a modern laptop. Period. It's not me, it's not my laptop, it's the code. If the MBU doesn't realize that they wrote something that is very slow and unresponsive, then that just makes them look even worse. They ought not need the users to point out what is absurdly obvious to any rational human being upon the first launch of their flagship product.
Loosing VBA was really, really bad. There is almost no point in using Office for Mac anymore. Why bother? You can easily do your work in iWork and save it in a compatible format (for the average user anyway).
Office in parallels loads much faster than Office for Mac. Go figure.
I also have a early 2008 Mac Pro dual 3GZ with 10GB RAM. It's slow on that too for crying out loud.
I just purchased office 2008 for my Macbook Pro, 2.4GHZ 4GB RAM, and for some Excel apps there is a terrible lag while it loads or calcs or does whatever. Today I was running a pivot table on a fairly large file (quite easy on my old thinkpad with 500mb ram and 1.6ghz processor and excel 2003) and I got an 'out of memory error' then excel crashed. Also, to refresh the pivot table took forever.
anyone else have any experience like this, any suggestions?
anyone else have any experience like this, any suggestions?
Practically every release of every piece of software is slower than the last. Developers can afford to do that because computer hardware gets faster in the meanwhile to make up for it. In a few years we'll be complaining than Office 2012 is slow when Office 2008 is fast.
It _is_ universal and thus much faster than Office 2004, regardless of how fast it is overall. Have fun with that.
The version of iWork that came with my Mac is iWork '06, and I can't save into Office formats.
EDIT: Actually I could, but I couldn't figure out how to force Pages to always save in Word format. It kept forcing me to Save as... every time instead. Given that I like to save after every half sentence or so, I got quite annoyed.
No no no
Not when MS adds "features" by piling new code on top of tons of old code. Optimization takes a back seat to new "features".
Not when MS adds "features" by piling new code on top of tons of old code. Optimization takes a back seat to new "features".
Microsoft very slow
I have a 2 x3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
with 20 GB 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
Every hard drive bay has 500 gigs of hard drive, I have lots of start up disk space.
I buy all my applications, no illegal apps on my machine.
Microsoft Entourage 2008 and Microsoft products is a real pain because my start up is very slow, which it shouldn't be with 20 gigs of RAM. I am very close to upgrading to snow leopard (i have but i am waiting for FontLab to catch up right now). I even tried setting Entourage's preferences and SpotLight so that it will hopefully speed up with no success.
All I can say is, I am very frustrated with Microsoft Office and Apple.
I have a 2 x3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
with 20 GB 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
Every hard drive bay has 500 gigs of hard drive, I have lots of start up disk space.
I buy all my applications, no illegal apps on my machine.
Microsoft Entourage 2008 and Microsoft products is a real pain because my start up is very slow, which it shouldn't be with 20 gigs of RAM. I am very close to upgrading to snow leopard (i have but i am waiting for FontLab to catch up right now). I even tried setting Entourage's preferences and SpotLight so that it will hopefully speed up with no success.
All I can say is, I am very frustrated with Microsoft Office and Apple.
I have been searching for a solution for this issue for almost 4 months now. It seems almost everyone is having some type of slowness issue with Office 2008 for Mac and Microsoft does not seem to care. They keep releasing security updates, but how about performance updates. I will post a solution if I end up finding one.
It might help somewhat to go into your firewall preferences and prevent Word/Powerpoint/Excel from phoning home.
It is still unbearably slow for me, but even less so when doing that.
Office for Mac 2008
Interesting to read all the comments - if only I could join in! I bought a copy from the Mactopia site via Buy & Click. I never received the registration key - I was using the trial version - and despite 13 emails of complaint I have received no response and am out of pocket 152. Is this anyone else's experience ? Someone please advise ?
Interesting to read all the comments - if only I could join in! I bought a copy from the Mactopia site via Buy & Click. I never received the registration key - I was using the trial version - and despite 13 emails of complaint I have received no response and am out of pocket 152. Is this anyone else's experience ? Someone please advise ?
Well, in all fairness, all iWork 09 apps also have a painfully sluggish start up time on my Mac Pro. It's probably because both suites have to initialize a large amount of frameworks before they become usable. But once that's done, iWork really is much faster than Office 2008. Microsoft's Mac Business Unit is probably too understaffed to have time to optimize their code.
very slow excel 2008...
I just bought MacBookPro 13'' (2.4Ghz) and was hoping that excell would be faster than my old laptop; but it is very slow... What to do? Any tricks or just give it back... I am working with the same file I worked in an old laptop where iterations were not an issue at all... In MacBookPro, it trys to calculate each time when I enter something (even words, ie no calculations required).
Any ideas??
I just bought MacBookPro 13'' (2.4Ghz) and was hoping that excell would be faster than my old laptop; but it is very slow... What to do? Any tricks or just give it back... I am working with the same file I worked in an old laptop where iterations were not an issue at all... In MacBookPro, it trys to calculate each time when I enter something (even words, ie no calculations required).
Any ideas??