Word 2007 is painfully slow on Vista

djk21108 · 09-24-2007, 12:02 AM

Yes hehe you are totally right. The network printer is very slow, the printer I made up makes it run super fast. Any ways to fix this dumb network printer issue.

Patrick Y. · 09-24-2007, 12:04 AM

I don't have any problem. On the other hand, I don't have a network printer installed.

icedout297 · 09-24-2007, 04:01 AM

I have an HP printer hooked up, and I'm not experiencing any problems. Word 2007 opens in about 2 seconds. I have a T7300 2Gz, 3GB RAM, 8600M GT.. if it helps.

jb1007 · 09-24-2007, 08:53 AM

I know the issue you are talking about.

About 20% of the time when I connect to my office network, something goes wrong. I can tell because office apps take about 5 extra seconds to load and when I go to print something, word will crash. I can still see my network files, but when i press ctrl+p, it's over. The only solution so far is a reboot, I'm not really sure why it happens.

Pitabred · 09-24-2007, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by djk21108

Yes hehe you are totally right. The network printer is very slow, the printer I made up makes it run super fast. Any ways to fix this dumb network printer issue.

Welcome to Windows. Enjoy your stay

Leave it at the "made up" printer, and just switch to the network one when you need to. The problem is that Word ties it's layout to the Printer. Completely stupid design decision that they're now stuck with keeping and pushing on the customer.

PhoenixFx · 09-24-2007, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Pitabred

Welcome to Windows. Enjoy your stay

Leave it at the "made up" printer, and just switch to the network one when you need to. The problem is that Word ties it's layout to the Printer. Completely stupid design decision that they're now stuck with keeping and pushing on the customer.

Yes, set the default printer to a locally installed printer (like Microsoft XPS Document Writer) and select the proper printer only at the time of printing.

djk21108 · 09-24-2007, 08:33 PM

still its very .
microsoft does not need a service pack to fix this

HowiePS · 02-23-2008, 09:15 PM

Word is slow to start, print, or load documents

I have Office 2007 on Vista Home Premium. Vista was connected to a networked printer through an XP machine, and print spooling was painfully slowww on the Vista machine only when using Office 2007. The Print spooler worked great for all non-Office applications. I was happy that the solution was so easy: Remove the printer. Add the printer. Don't connect to it as a network printer; but rather as a local port pointed to the network printer.

This is the solution that worked for me:
(I basically used the XP solution described in the link on the Vista machine)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/280821

Hope it Helps

Nocturnal310 · 02-24-2008, 03:52 AM

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Originally Posted by djk21108

still its very .
microsoft does not need a service pack to fix this

An interesting observation... Not many tried to solve your problem.. gosh this forums credibility is going down!

Firstly have u installed Office 2007 Service pack?

It will make Word open in 5 seconds..
I have a weaker system than yours & mine opens faster.

And and and .. Office 2007 is the fastest on VISTA btw..
Unless its XP SP3

Other than that..FYI .. .doc opens slightly slower than .docx

ifti · 02-24-2008, 01:21 PM

Ive had no problems with slowness either on my current laptop or my lower spec D620 at work. Office 2007 has been opening just as fast as as any other version of office has in the past.....