Tiger and Office 04
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I am currently using Office 2004, so I cannot comment on Office for X. I have Office 2004 and OS 10.4 on two machines currently, a Power G4 DP 1.42, and an iMac G5.
I have encountered no problems with either machine after ten days of use. Overall, Office seeems almost "snappy" under 10.4, especially PowerPoint. M$ Word used to occaisionally crash (ha, ha!
) with 10.3.8. I thasn't done this once with 10.4.
If you want to use Appleworks with Office documents, the only sure way to guarantee success is to use the Rich Text Format option. If you are using Appleworks, use that as a "save as" option. If you are in Word, the same thing.
I have encountered no problems with either machine after ten days of use. Overall, Office seeems almost "snappy" under 10.4, especially PowerPoint. M$ Word used to occaisionally crash (ha, ha!
) with 10.3.8. I thasn't done this once with 10.4.If you want to use Appleworks with Office documents, the only sure way to guarantee success is to use the Rich Text Format option. If you are using Appleworks, use that as a "save as" option. If you are in Word, the same thing.
Sirtovin
Senior Switcher Tech Guru
Has anyone had this following problem. I have an Ibook 768mb of memory 1 ghz processor running Tiger...
I have Word 2004 open... I have about 25 pages of text for a novel I am working on.
All of a sudden sometimes I get the annoying ball and boom Word locks up.
Another time I had a message say Out of Memory please save.
I tried to save and it would not let me save. I checked Activity Monitor and it was saying I have more than enough memory... Another words I should not have been locking up. I believe the problem is M$ related anyone else have a similar experience?
I have Word 2004 open... I have about 25 pages of text for a novel I am working on.
All of a sudden sometimes I get the annoying ball and boom Word locks up.
Another time I had a message say Out of Memory please save.
I tried to save and it would not let me save. I checked Activity Monitor and it was saying I have more than enough memory... Another words I should not have been locking up. I believe the problem is M$ related anyone else have a similar experience?
Sirtovin
Senior Switcher Tech Guru
Satcomer said:
The auto-save feature is set for 10 mins apart...
I don't believe its that unless for some reason Office 2004, is not optimizing the memory from Tiger. I am thinking its M$ related because when I closed Word orignally and waited 10 seconds to relaunch it worked fine again the save command... I am thinking there is a memory leak... of some sort.
I have had that same problem with Word, even before the Tiger upgrade, and this is on a machine which appears to be identical to yours. The problem has happened only with Word, and none of the other Office programs. I do a file save every time I complete a page to avoid losing anything.
I am switching to Nissus Writer myself.
Edit: Actually I have also had that same problem with Word on my DP 1.42 PowerMac, with 2 g of memory.
I am switching to Nissus Writer myself.
Edit: Actually I have also had that same problem with Word on my DP 1.42 PowerMac, with 2 g of memory.
delsoljb32
Dark Archon
I havent run into any problems thus far with Tiger and Orifice '04. I use it primarily for school work (word for notes and papers, powerpoint for lecture slides, etc). I havent used Entourage yet though, didnt find it very intuitive in the first iteration (quite bothersome actually). Everything else is good though. They were right when they said it actually ran better on a Mac than it did on a PC. Hah!
delsoljb32
Dark Archon
to comment on the "out of memory" thing, that did happen to me when i installed office right after clean installing tiger. Though I didnt restart after the install, so i think that it had a bit of memory leak due to the install. Restart fixed it, and havent had a problem since with it.
Upgraded to Tiger on 12 and 17 laptops using Office 2004 Powerpoint and suddenly Ppt response slowed down when opening, switching visualization modes. What took a few moments to do in lecture now takes 3 or 4 minutes in same lecture after switch to Tiger. Seems like it takes more time to "draw" all images in presentations. Medical images, ppt presentations are big 30 to 60 MB. Any ideas to fix. Back to Panther? Important lectures next month. Scared.