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Powerpoint 2007 and Excel 2007 Beta 2 is painfully slow
Hello everyone,
let me share some of mine experiences with two new Office apps. I like the new UI and new OfficeArt features simply rock. Nevertheless I am troubles with the performance. As soon as I add any picture or shape or effect to the slide in Powerpoint, the performance drops down drastically to a level where moving cursor from character to character takes 2 to 3 seconds. When I add a two a three pictures on a slide, the Powerpoint becomes virtually unusable. Excel is not doing much better, charts and any new features are very slow. My Office XP and Office 2003 installations is running fast and fine so I suspect that problem has to do with those two Office 2007 apps and not with my hardware configuration. Even Word 2007 is responsive enough. I hope Microsoft will do some performance optimization before RTM otherwise new Office is an impossibility for me. Did anyone experience similar behavior to mine? Any advice on how to resolve the issues? My computer hardware and software setup: Windows XP Professional SP2 Celeron 4 1,7Ghz 786 MB RAM 40GB HDD NVidia GeForce 4 MX440 64MB AGP 8x video card Jan Sichula (Slovak Republic) |
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Powerpoint 2007 and Excel 2007 Beta 2 is painfully slow
of course, it's still beta. We all expect significant rise in speed &
performance. "Jan Sichula" wrote in message ... Hello everyone, let me share some of mine experiences with two new Office apps. I like the new UI and new OfficeArt features simply rock. Nevertheless I am troubles with the performance. As soon as I add any picture or shape or effect to the slide in Powerpoint, the performance drops down drastically to a level where moving cursor from character to character takes 2 to 3 seconds. When I add a two a three pictures on a slide, the Powerpoint becomes virtually unusable. Excel is not doing much better, charts and any new features are very slow. My Office XP and Office 2003 installations is running fast and fine so I suspect that problem has to do with those two Office 2007 apps and not with my hardware configuration. Even Word 2007 is responsive enough. I hope Microsoft will do some performance optimization before RTM otherwise new Office is an impossibility for me. Did anyone experience similar behavior to mine? Any advice on how to resolve the issues? My computer hardware and software setup: Windows XP Professional SP2 Celeron 4 1,7Ghz 786 MB RAM 40GB HDD NVidia GeForce 4 MX440 64MB AGP 8x video card Jan Sichula (Slovak Republic) |
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Powerpoint 2007 and Excel 2007 Beta 2 is painfully slow
I'm running Office 2007 Beta 2 on a Wondows XP SP2 Virtual Machine, and I am
simply not experiencing these types of issues. I understand your hardware configuration is fine for Office 2003, but I would at least try setting hardware acceleration back to see if it helps 2007. How to set graphics hardware acceleration back http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00129.htm I'd also check your antivirus program. I had to shut down AVG's scan just now because my entire system became totally unresponsive while it was chugging along. Usually I have no problems with it, but ugh, it was a nightmare this time. -- Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ PPTLive! Sept 17-20, 2006 http://www.pptlive.com "Jan Sichula" wrote in message ... Hello everyone, let me share some of mine experiences with two new Office apps. I like the new UI and new OfficeArt features simply rock. Nevertheless I am troubles with the performance. As soon as I add any picture or shape or effect to the slide in Powerpoint, the performance drops down drastically to a level where moving cursor from character to character takes 2 to 3 seconds. When I add a two a three pictures on a slide, the Powerpoint becomes virtually unusable. Excel is not doing much better, charts and any new features are very slow. My Office XP and Office 2003 installations is running fast and fine so I suspect that problem has to do with those two Office 2007 apps and not with my hardware configuration. Even Word 2007 is responsive enough. I hope Microsoft will do some performance optimization before RTM otherwise new Office is an impossibility for me. Did anyone experience similar behavior to mine? Any advice on how to resolve the issues? My computer hardware and software setup: Windows XP Professional SP2 Celeron 4 1,7Ghz 786 MB RAM 40GB HDD NVidia GeForce 4 MX440 64MB AGP 8x video card Jan Sichula (Slovak Republic) |
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Powerpoint 2007 and Excel 2007 Beta 2 is painfully slow
MS is investigating a PPT issue in which CPU utilization spikes while
typing and characters appear painfully slow due to that. Could you please use Start, Run and type msinfo32 in there? Then File, Save (takes about 10 mins), zip it up and email it to me so that I can forward the information to MS? Thanks, Patrick Schmid -------------- http://pschmid.net "Echo S" wrote in message : I'm running Office 2007 Beta 2 on a Wondows XP SP2 Virtual Machine, and I am simply not experiencing these types of issues. I understand your hardware configuration is fine for Office 2003, but I would at least try setting hardware acceleration back to see if it helps 2007. How to set graphics hardware acceleration back http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00129.htm I'd also check your antivirus program. I had to shut down AVG's scan just now because my entire system became totally unresponsive while it was chugging along. Usually I have no problems with it, but ugh, it was a nightmare this time. -- Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ PPTLive! Sept 17-20, 2006 http://www.pptlive.com "Jan Sichula" wrote in message ... Hello everyone, let me share some of mine experiences with two new Office apps. I like the new UI and new OfficeArt features simply rock. Nevertheless I am troubles with the performance. As soon as I add any picture or shape or effect to the slide in Powerpoint, the performance drops down drastically to a level where moving cursor from character to character takes 2 to 3 seconds. When I add a two a three pictures on a slide, the Powerpoint becomes virtually unusable. Excel is not doing much better, charts and any new features are very slow. My Office XP and Office 2003 installations is running fast and fine so I suspect that problem has to do with those two Office 2007 apps and not with my hardware configuration. Even Word 2007 is responsive enough. I hope Microsoft will do some performance optimization before RTM otherwise new Office is an impossibility for me. Did anyone experience similar behavior to mine? Any advice on how to resolve the issues? My computer hardware and software setup: Windows XP Professional SP2 Celeron 4 1,7Ghz 786 MB RAM 40GB HDD NVidia GeForce 4 MX440 64MB AGP 8x video card Jan Sichula (Slovak Republic) |
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Powerpoint 2007 and Excel 2007 Beta 2 is painfully slow
"Patrick Schmid" wrote in message
... MS is investigating a PPT issue in which CPU utilization spikes while typing and characters appear painfully slow due to that. Could you please use Start, Run and type msinfo32 in there? Then File, Save (takes about 10 mins), zip it up and email it to me so that I can forward the information to MS? Ah, interesting. -- Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ PPTLive! Sept 17-20, 2006 http://www.pptlive.com |
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Powerpoint 2007 and Excel 2007 Beta 2 is painfully slow
I am using Powerpoint 2007 beta for the first time tonight. I also find it
painfully slow when typing text and deleting characters. Are there any updates/fixes since the chain of emails this past July? "Echo S" wrote: "Patrick Schmid" wrote in message ... MS is investigating a PPT issue in which CPU utilization spikes while typing and characters appear painfully slow due to that. Could you please use Start, Run and type msinfo32 in there? Then File, Save (takes about 10 mins), zip it up and email it to me so that I can forward the information to MS? Ah, interesting. -- Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ PPTLive! Sept 17-20, 2006 http://www.pptlive.com |
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Powerpoint 2007 and Excel 2007 Beta 2 is painfully slow
Is your CPU going to 100% when you are typing in PPT?
Patrick Schmid -------------- http://pschmid.net "Ira" wrote in message : I am using Powerpoint 2007 beta for the first time tonight. I also find it painfully slow when typing text and deleting characters. Are there any updates/fixes since the chain of emails this past July? "Echo S" wrote: "Patrick Schmid" wrote in message ... MS is investigating a PPT issue in which CPU utilization spikes while typing and characters appear painfully slow due to that. Could you please use Start, Run and type msinfo32 in there? Then File, Save (takes about 10 mins), zip it up and email it to me so that I can forward the information to MS? Ah, interesting. -- Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ PPTLive! Sept 17-20, 2006 http://www.pptlive.com |
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