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.
Word and excel constantly giving me 10 - 30 seconds spinning beach balls
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Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) Processor: intel I recently bought Office: Mac 2008, and installed it. When I use word, the spelling checker will not check the main body of the document, however, it will check the footnotes. Using help, I followed the instructions in relation to installing proofing tools, as that was suggested as the root of the problem. Having reinstalled word, the spelling checker will work when I open a new document but it still will not work on any documents that I created before. I tried to copy and paste into a new document but that didn't work either. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. - 2. word normal.dot template
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Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: intel How do I "save" or "save as" a new document (including one opened from an e-mail attachment) to a specific folder in Documents? When I either command, the window that opens does not enable me to save to specific folders in Documents (as I was able to do with Tiger and MS Office 2004) it only permits me to save to (i) Documents (but not specific folders within Documents), (ii) a folder that I had recently opened, (iii) Desktop, and (iv) possibly other destinations.
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Word and excel constantly giving me 10 - 30 seconds spinning beach balls
by phillman5 » Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:14:17 GMT
Re: Word and excel constantly giving me 10 - 30 seconds spinning beach balls
by MC » Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:53:50 GMT
In article < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >, Take a look at your Save preferences. How often does Autosave run? If it's 1 minute, that can cause this problem. Increase it to 5 minutes and it might go away. Of course, it could easily be something else altogether. -- Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. - Orson Welles
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