Anyone know ho wto speed up the process Word takes to "optimize the font menu"? It takes me a good 45 seconds to open Word solely because it is optimizing the font menu. Anyone know how to turn it off altogether or speed it up significantly?
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Office 2004 Question
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It should only be doing that once, AFAIK. The first time you open one of the Office apps. You're seeing this everytime?
That's very unusual. I'd start by Quitting all Office apps, and removing a file:
~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office Font Cache (11)
Then start Word and it'll create the Font Cache anew. Then Quit Word and try opening it again. It shouldn't go through the caching phase again.
Also, majke sure you'll all up to date on patches for Office 2004.
~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office Font Cache (11)
Then start Word and it'll create the Font Cache anew. Then Quit Word and try opening it again. It shouldn't go through the caching phase again.
Also, majke sure you'll all up to date on patches for Office 2004.
Well, let's be a bit more "shotgun" with our approach.
Go ahead and quit Word (and any other Office app), then zip up the ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft folder (select folder -> right-click -> Create Archive of "blah blah"), when it's done zipping, throw the Microsoft folder in the trash and empty it (don't worry you just zipped it to fall back on when/if this doesn't work). Now try running Word, it should be just like starting over. Once that's all over and done with, quit Word and open it again.
There IS light at the end of the tunnel, I have Office 2004 and don't see what you're seeing.
Go ahead and quit Word (and any other Office app), then zip up the ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft folder (select folder -> right-click -> Create Archive of "blah blah"), when it's done zipping, throw the Microsoft folder in the trash and empty it (don't worry you just zipped it to fall back on when/if this doesn't work). Now try running Word, it should be just like starting over. Once that's all over and done with, quit Word and open it again.
There IS light at the end of the tunnel, I have Office 2004 and don't see what you're seeing.
yellow said:
Ok, so I don't know what Onyx or Cocktail is (although I did a spotlight search for both and Onyx the font showed up, is that what you were talking about?)
I did what you recommended and it seemed to work, meaning it doesn't show that optomizing font at the bottom of the page anymore so thanks! However, it still takes a good 15 seconds to open, now I know that may come off as sounding greedy or whatever, but I mean, with a gig of ram and a G5 processor should it really take a full 15 seconds to open one basic word document? Also its not pirated software, I actually bought the software and have all the updates. On windows something like this would take 3-4 seconds max.
Thoughts?
reykjavik said:
No, something is still wrong. It takes 3-4 seconds on my iBook and 2-3 seconds on my wife's powerbook to open MS word.
Are you talking about a huge document or something just a few pages long?
Edit: do you have a lot of fonts installed on your computer (more than, say 50)? That can slow a lot of things down.
I was having the same issue, although I didn't realize it was an issue until reading this thread. I trashed the preferences folder, and my start time has gone from about 15 seconds to about 2. The problem is I had custom toolbars in Word which took quite a bit of time to get right. Does anyone know which preference file holds this, so I can put that file in my new folder.
EDIT: Found it. Thanks for tips. I'm glad I read this thread!!!
EDIT: Found it. Thanks for tips. I'm glad I read this thread!!!
Is your copy of Office current with all the patches/service packs?
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.aspx?pid=office2004sp2
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.aspx?pid=office2004sp2
