MS word slow to fire up

icemakk · May 6th, 2005, 09:47 AM

I have noticed that in the last year that MS word seems to take a lot longer to fully fire up. I get that spinning wheel for what seems an extra long time. Maybe it has to do with my switch to Tiger?
It works fine but just seems to take longer than it did before to fire up.
Anyone else have this little annoyance?

Or is it just normal being a microshaft program?

macsackbut · May 6th, 2005, 11:31 AM

Right after I upgraded to Tiger, Word (v.X) seemed to take a while to load up after a machine restart. It seemed to get stuck on optimizing system fonts or some such thing. But recently it's been firing up as quickly as it ever did. No idea what the problem was (or what your problem is) however.

MacS

May 6th, 2005, 01:33 PM

I saw the same thing doing font optimizations, the first time it tried to do that it hung up on me for 15 minutes, I force quit, the next time I launched it ran the optimizations again, and since then it's been ok here.

Mark

petermuen · May 27th, 2005, 02:44 PM

I would run FontBook, and then run Font diagnostics from the File menu (make sure to select all fonts). Delete any fonts for which problems are detected. Make sure to optimize your system, repair permissions, etc.

May 27th, 2005, 04:29 PM

you might also try Cocktail, and let it clean up all the caches (esp. the font cache)... that seems to help sometimes.

ct77 · May 27th, 2005, 06:26 PM

Slightly offtopic, but is there any reason why Word constantly sucks up 10% of my CPU, even when it's sitting there in the background, doing nothing?

Every other app I use (Photoshop, Pages, etc) uses close to 0% of my CPU when sitting in the background.

Gerbill · May 27th, 2005, 08:22 PM

There was a fix in 10.3.9 for slow OS startups when a lot of PostScript fonts are present. It seems to have fixed slow Word 2004 starting too on a couple of G4s I worked on.