Click to expand.I searched everywhere and I did not find a solution! However, I investigated the component of the Micro$oft word and figured out that its most stalling component is 'Grammar Check'. So, if you disable this option, then you would see a considerable improvement in its speed even though that still there would be a little lag behind continuous erasing process!
To disable the grammar check: simply open Word- Preferences - disable Auto Correct and then go back and get the 'spelling and Grammar' and uncheck every box under 'Grammar'. Hope it works Ashkan.
Mine is the same and it's very annoying - all my work is report writing and it's a nuisance.I type too fast for word / powerpoint and it's just annoying the life out of me. I thought it was maybe just the beta version but got a new Macbook and got Office for Mac 2016 and it's still the same. In addition to this. I have a problem where I'm typing in a table in Powerpoint and come to the end of the line - naturally powerpoint should just continue my sentence on the next line but it seems to be highlighting the whole cell text and then as I am typing faster, it is overriding the cell text.
Word crashes and slow performance. Feedback directly to our Office teams. In Office 2016 on Windows 10, open an Office app, and click File > Feedback. Hi, We have a user who finds typing in Word 2010 very slow. There appears to be a lag where he presses the keys but the words do not come up on the page straight away. After much investigation we removed his Windows 7 Profile from the PC and network as we redirect out App Data.
I keep having to use undo and be careful when I come to the end of a line. Also same thing happens when I press enter for a new para in powerpoint.
Highlights the whole cell text and overrides it. Again I have to use the undo and work around it. I really hope this isn't it. They better have updates to fix these few things. I'd love to use iWork or Keynote but unfortunately we have standard templates for our reports at work and most people operate from a windows machine so I have to go with Microsoft Office for now. I know this is a different issue, but I just want to vent about the last version of MS Word. I just found out that every time you try to use Word it has to connect to the authentication server or it won't work.
This morning a truck snapped the optical fiber cable that provides internet to the office and I was really mad that I couldn't work on some documents because I didn't have internet. It seems moronic to me. Luckily I kept a copy of MS word 2011 on my mac precisely for this kind of 'emergency'.
It struggles to work on High sierra but on a pinch it would do. Anyway, I just needed to vent.
The internet company fixed the problem a few hours ago and I'm back online (obviously). I know this is a different issue, but I just want to vent about the last version of MS Word. I just found out that every time you try to use Word it has to connect to the authentication server or it won't work. This morning a truck snapped the optical fiber cable that provides internet to the office and I was really mad that I couldn't work on some documents because I didn't have internet.
It seems moronic to me. Luckily I kept a copy of MS word 2011 on my mac precisely for this kind of 'emergency'. It struggles to work on High sierra but on a pinch it would do. Anyway, I just needed to vent. The internet company fixed the problem a few hours ago and I'm back online (obviously). Same here, I use it all the time on airplanes and other places without internet. Never had any trouble launching Word, Excel, Outlook, or any other MS Office application without an active internet connection.
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Yes, they do check periodically whether or not your license/subscription is still valid, but as far as I know this only happens once a month and can be pushed back several times if no internet connection is available. Eventually, the applications will stop working but this takes a loooong time.
I upgraded my Dell Inspiron 2GB ram E1505 laptop to Windows 7 Professional and Word 2010. I recently began editing a Word document that was created in a previous version of Word 2007, about 12 pages with 9000 words and more than 10 drawing canvases.
The keystroke response time to do anything is excruciatingly slow. Editing the drawings is extremely slow. Adding or deleting single letters in sentences takes about 2 seconds per keystroke.
Each letter added or deleted seems to require that the whole document redisplay. Scrolling up and down takes multiple seconds per page per key stroke. Both of my attempts to work around the situation failed. First, I created a new document and selected all the information from the old document and pasted it into the new document, but performance did not improve. Second, from Jennifer Zhan’s prior posting, I unchecked the Trust Center options, but performance did not improve. Unless I can address this performance issue very quickly, I will likely be forced to remove Office 2010 from my computer, go backwards, and reinstall Office 2007. Any assistance will be appreciated. Hi, First, try to start Word in safe mode hold ctrl key while startup to see if this issue is caused by some add-ins.
If it works well in safe mode, disable all add-ins. How to do this, see here: Also you may try some other methods: Reset the Word data key in the Windows Registry. Click Start and then click Run. In the Open box, type Regedit and then click OK. Open the following registry key: HKEYCURRENTUSER Software Microsoft Office 14.0 Word. Under the Word key, click the Data subkey. On the Edit menu, click Delete.
Click Yes if the following message appears: Are you sure you want to delete this key?. On the Registry menu, click Exit. Re-start Word. Repair or replace damaged or missing fonts Damaged or missing fonts can cause the issue that word runs slowly when you edit in Word. To correct this problem, remove and reinstall the fonts. In addition, if you use printer on this PC, try to delete and reinstall your printer driver.
If all of above has no avail, I suggest you uninstall your office 2010 and re-install it. Hi, First, try to start Word in safe mode hold ctrl key while startup to see if this issue is caused by some add-ins. If it works well in safe mode, disable all add-ins. How to do this, see here: Also you may try some other methods: Reset the Word data key in the Windows Registry. Click Start and then click Run.
In the Open box, type Regedit and then click OK. Open the following registry key: HKEYCURRENTUSER Software Microsoft Office 14.0 Word. Under the Word key, click the Data subkey. On the Edit menu, click Delete. Click Yes if the following message appears: Are you sure you want to delete this key?.
On the Registry menu, click Exit. Re-start Word. Repair or replace damaged or missing fonts Damaged or missing fonts can cause the issue that word runs slowly when you edit in Word. To correct this problem, remove and reinstall the fonts. In addition, if you use printer on this PC, try to delete and reinstall your printer driver. If all of above has no avail, I suggest you uninstall your office 2010 and re-install it.
Same problem here. When editing heaters of images and graphs, changing styles or changing font size word slows down markedly making all these easy operations very frustrating loosing a lot of time. Also, sometimes word just crash while saving the document. If I save the document in word 97/2003 there s no more slow down but of course I cannot edit graphs and images. Tryed all methods suggested by Dr.Biscotto and by Jennifer but I haven't seen any improvement. So, if there s no fixes to adress this issue I had to reinstall office 2007 that used to work perfectly (even in the same document).
Hope someone can help me. Hi all, I also experience the same behaviour. I bought a new pc, 8gigs of ram, solid state disk, windows 7 64 bits and office 2010 (installed 64 bits). I use word and excel on a daily basis and mostly make charts in excel and import them into word.
In office 2003 I never had a problem with that. Now, after spending some time to adjust to 2010 in the different modules (excel and word) I started doing what I always do and import excel graphs into word.
This takes at least 7-10 seconds to load into word (ctrl-c in excel and paste special, picture (enhanced meta-file) in word), but more annoyingly is it that (re)placing the picture in the word document is very slow. I can not see what happens because the image will not move as I move the cursor, but when I let loose of the mouse button the image jumps to that cursor location and that is not accurate at all and takes me ages to fine tune the location of that picture. The other thing is that when I browse through the whole of the word document, every time I come to, or pass, these pages with these imported graphs even the browsing slows down. It looks like the screenframe is being build up, like the graphics card has to render a lot of data (AMD Radeon 6870). If this is how Office 2010 operates on such easy tasks I just spend a lot of money for nothing and can return to office 2003, so please help!! I am having the exact same problem, MS Word slows down to a crawl when you've got a couple equations on the page.
The stuttering is making my brain boil. This, despite modern processing power? This is embarrassing, talk about shoddy, inefficient coding.
It's a shame, because the entry method in the new equation editor in 2010 is quick and intuitive, it made me come back to MS Word after years of having switched over to LyX (which I highly recommend to anyone looking for an alternative) , but now I have to return to LyX. Sorry Microsoft, I tried, but its unbearable.
Hello I think I may know the reason for the slow down, I have the same problem with word 2010. Maybe in other applications of office 2010 there will be the same problem. I think the problem is deep into the MS office source code. In Office 2007 there was a limitation to group pictures with shapes. This was caused because different drawing engines were used for pictures and shapes.
Because of this we at the office saved our documentation files in 97/2003 office format. Now when Office 2010 appeared I decided to check if this issue is solved and I discovered that it is possible to group pictures and shapes in 2010.docx and to use some new fancy features applied on them. The problem shows up when you have lots of shapes represented into your document - somehow maybe the rendering using the new drawing engine can't handle the shapes. I believe this should be solved in some future updates since such an issue is ridiculous. I don't believe that any add-ins bother the shapes - in a safe mode it is the same blaaah. Anyway if somebody has an idea how to shortcut the problem and still use the new 2010 docx format please let us know.
I have had issues as well. I got a new Dell XPS laptop with 8 gigs of RAM, fast processor, etc. When I opened Word 2007 in Windows 7, everything would slow down to a snail's pace. It was basically unusable. My solution has been to install the Virtual XP environment and to run Word 2007 and Endnote in the Virtual XP mode.
It works fine, and my PC is lightning fast again. It is really unbelievable that Word is causing so many problems for some many people though. I would have used Open Office for word processing, but my version of Endnote is not compatible with it.