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Author Topic: Office 2007 Compatability Pack  (Read 9608 times)

Grorgy

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Office 2007 Compatability Pack
« on: September 30, 2007, 11:44 PM »
I recently installed the above mentioned pack and discovered that on my laptop, a celeron 1.5 with 764mb ram, that word ran very very slowly and was using heaps more resources than usual. processor usage at times reached 100%, it wasnt all word of course but it was a big player, it also would go "not responding".  I've uninstalled the pack and its back to normal, hardly leaps around for joy on my laptop but works ok. :)

Any one else had this problem? and if you did, did you find a way to overcome it as I can see more and more documents being produced in these formats soon.

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Re: Office 2007 Compatability Pack
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2007, 08:33 AM »
I haven't noticed that problem in Word 2003.

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Re: Office 2007 Compatability Pack
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2007, 12:01 PM »
Thanks Carol, actually, that somehow doesn't surprise me, it sometimes seems to me that if there is an obscure performance issue then i seem destined to get it  ;D 

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Re: Office 2007 Compatability Pack
« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2007, 01:06 PM »
No - that's called paranoia ;)

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Re: Office 2007 Compatability Pack
« Reply #4 on: October 02, 2007, 10:32 AM »
I recently installed the above mentioned pack and discovered that on my laptop, a celeron 1.5 with 764mb ram, that word ran very very slowly and was using heaps more resources than usual.

Don,t know, but did you install all the "High-Priority updates from Microsoft Update before downloading the Compatibility Pack" ?

https://www.microsof...6&displaylang=en