Typing text is impossibly slow in text boxes when in publishing layout

[Christin...@officeformac.com]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel When I try to type or edit text in a text box in a template document (a newsletter template) the typing, editing, deleting, backspacing or what ever, is absolutely impossibly slow. Am I doing something wrong or do I have something set up wrong. If it remains this way I will not be able to work in this program.

[John McGhie]

Apart from using Publishing Layout View, I suspect you are not doing
anything wrong.

Publishing Layout View requires very powerful hardware, and even then it
tends to crash a lot.

If I were you, I would try to work in Print Layout View, it will be a lot
quicker.

And make sure that both OS X and Office 2008 are completely updated: they
will be extremely slow if they are missing updates.

You need at least a dual-core CPU and at least 4 GB of RAM to have a
bearable experience in Publishing Layout View. But at some point it always
clags up and drags like treacle in winter: which is why I never use it :-)

Cheers

On 26/04/10 1:25 PM, in article 59bb7...@webcrossing.JaKIaxP2ac0,
"Christin...@officeformac.com" <Christin...@officeformac.com>
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