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1.Word and excel constantly giving me 10 - 30 seconds spinning beach balls

Leopard 10.5.4, Word 12.1.2 (2008), 4 GB, fairly new machine 2.6GHz
Intel.   Just doing simple things like selecting menus, copy small
amounts of text, going from one word document to another word
document, I am constantly getting a spinning beach ball that lasts 10
- 30 seconds.  This seems to happen in both Word and Excel.  What
gives?   I tried Excel 2004 and did not have this problem at all with
the same document.

2.Spinning beach ball or slow down or freeze on opening windows sourced Word doc

I open a word doc that was emailed to me from a windows user.
I see the document open and can see the first screen of it quickly. Then
Word freezes and if I click on the scroll bar, nothing happens and I get the
spinning beach ball. This lasts for a few minutes then the document is
usable in a normal way. [other programs running work fine during this time,
it only seems to impact Word]
There are no graphics, or linked material that would cause the scroll to
generate processor overhead.
It does not happen with documents created in Word for OS X.

Is anyone experiencing this or am I imagining it.


Thanks, ...Marco. 

3.Inserting A Contact in a Word 2004 Table Causes Spinning Beach Ball

I'm trying to insert a contact, and/or an associated address, into a
Word table - something which I could do with alacrity in Word X (on a
good day with a following wind) - but which now causes the
multi-coloured 'pizza of death' to appear.

Dear fellow Word 2004 users, please try this for me.

Open a new blank document.
Insert a two column, to row table.
Insert the curser in the first cell.
Find a contact, using the 'Contact' Toolbar.  Click to insert.
After a short pause does the dreaded pizza appear ?
(Word is not responding, dear reader)
Or.
Try clicking on the 'Include Address' button in the 'Contact'
Toolbar.
Does the dreaded pizza appear ?

Why is this, or more to the point, how can I stop it from doing this ?
It would, then, be possible to be able to insert multiple contacts in a
label template which, incidentally, uses a table for formatting.

4.Spinning Beach Ball during Save As in Word

'Save As' in Word used to be instant.  Now I get 30 seconds of spinning
beach ball.

I've tried a lot of things, including:

-- disk repair
-- permissions repair
-- zapping PRAM
-- anti-virus scan
-- uninstalling Quicksilver
-- putting iDisk Sync to Manual
-- adding 512Gb RAM (now 1Gb)
-- running MacJanitor
-- running Tiger Cache Cleaner

I'm getting desperate. No clue what to do next. Any suggestions
gratefully received. Thanks.

I'm running Word 2004 for Mac (v.11.2) on a G5 dual 1.8 Ghz, 1Gb RAM.
Tiger 10.4.4

5.Spinning beach ball of death

Hi,

Starters:

15" AL Powerbook 1.5 GHz, 1 Gb ram (Apple on 1 chip), OSX10.4.4 and
OSX10.4.5, 80Gb hard drive (with 16 (mon) or 19 Gb (Wed) free)

I've had this problem for 3 days.  After using my computer most of the
day (successfully) Monday to type a paper (with Endnote 8.0 references
added), I was able to type about 7 words, and then the SBBOD came up.
I checked Activitiy Monitor, which said that Word was taking up over
95% of my CPU.  I do notice that my computer is getting really hot when
this happens.  I'm not able to use word at all,  but excel, powerpoint
and entourage are fine.

Here's what I've done:

1. Tried trashing the word plist and repairing permissions.  No help on
Monday.  Gave up and went to bed.
2. Everything worked fine on Tuesday.
3.  On Wednesday, started up my computer, and same problem.  (also with
hot computer)
4.  Repaired permissions (nothing unusual) Upgraded to OSX10.4.5,
repaired permissions (nothing unusual), uninstalled Office,
re-installed office.
5.  Worked for a little while, then the problem started up again.
6.  Computer getting hot again. 

thanks for your help

Amy

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