Re: Long Loading Time For 2008 Office Apps

[raul gutierrez]

> The long loading times seem to be a very common problem. I heard our
> accountant muttering the other day because Excel would not load, it was
> loading, it just took over a minute and he was force quitting because he
> thought the program was stalling out.
> 
> Here at home I dread starting Entourage as it takes between 90-130 seconds...
> and that's on a fast machine.
> 
> We have many machines in the office, all different setups, all have the same
> problems. App startup is very slow.
> 
> I don't know if this is a font problem or a cache problem or whatever, but
> it's widespread enough that scores of mac users with garden variety setups
> experience it. None of have this problem with other apps or sets of apps. So
> all the workarounds seem like voodo... it seems that this is an MS issue.
> 
> My bet is with fonts. Mac users tend to have lots of fonts. MS has always been
> wonky about fonts.
> 
> rg