Word 2007 is painfully slow on Vista

[djk21108]

It's especially slow when I'm opening a .doc from a website or something, that wasn't made for 2007. Most of time it just takes like 10 seconds to start up and 15 to start typing. When its a .doc it takes like a full minute to start typing.

I have a 2.0 dual core and 2gb of ram

[djk21108]

every time i click out of word and click back in it says on the bottom connecting to printer hit esc to cancel. it unfreezes when i do hit esc

[djk21108]

when im off the network and theres no printer connected its super fast

[djk21108]

bump ggg a

[AKAJohnDoe]

Have you had too much coffee or what?

[plattnnum]

I agree, Microsoft needs to make their mainstream software faster...are you sure your computer is set to maximum performance?

[djk21108]

yes yes yes
read about the printer thing
thats the key

[Eallan]

Strange. Mine is blazing fast. I have no printers hooked up though.

[hehe299792458]

Originally Posted by djk21108

yes yes yes
read about the printer thing
thats the key

It's a network printer isn't it? I noticed the same problem on mine when I used that configuration. Now, I just set my default printer the the XPS printer and manually choose the correct printer when I want to print something

[Jarrod]

Interesting, I'm using Pentium 4 HT 3.0GHz, and it runs as fast as 2003. My only complaint is that some of the options only appear when WORD thinks you need it... that's really annoying.