On Jan 17, 2010, at 7:21 AM, Arnel Tuazon wrote: > Hey folks, > > I have a 2.3GHZ dual core G5 running Leopard (latest) and 5.5 GB of RAM. > I've been having trouble with MS Office 2008 (w/latest update) especially in > Word when working with a document containing graphics. My situation last > night: > > I was working in MS Word on a document containing 2 images. My font sizes > were from 12 to 28 (Candara and Snell Rounded). The document was about > 1.1MB in size. I also had another doc opened that I was using for > information. > I had Safari opened as I was searching for images. > I had Entourage opened as the other Word doc was sent to me via e-mail. > I had Fireworks opened as I was editing the graphics used in the doc. > > I noticed that Word was getting slower than usual. With the two docs opened > I couldn't seem to switch between the two docs; I could only see the one on > top (I could still switch between apps). I tried to preview the main doc I > was working on and I kept getting an error message saying that I was out of > memory...I have 5.5 GB! Then Word would crash (luckily I saved the docs). > With 5.5GB of RAM I thought that would be enough to handle all the apps I > had opened. > > 2008 seems to be more buggy than 2004. I also noticed that in 2008 when I > am choosing an art motif for my borders the list of art borders scrolls at a > turtle's pace. > > Anyone know what's going on or how to speed up MS Office? 5.5GB should be > enough right? BTW I did a full run of Apple Jack just in case, to clear out > my caches and tune up the G5. > >
In can feel the snarking comming, But I say your problem is Leopard on a PPC I have a PM G5 2.7 Dual 6GB and a lot of stuff has problems on the 10.5.8 partition espeacialy when images are involved. I would fire up in Tiger and see if the trouble still exists, unless you have an app that requires Leopard I find it's just not for PPc machines. But that's just me:-) Tiger rules on PPC. John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA
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