Slow startup times

I have already turned WYSIWYG fonts off.
I have also turned Show Project Gallery at Startup off.
I have deleted any and all versions of the NORMAL or NORMAL.DOTM file

I am using a MacBook with 2 Ghz processor and 2 GB of memory and 160
GB of hard drive space.

I am pretty sure this is not a memory issue because I am getting very
good startup times on the guest account. The problem just seems to
happen within my user account...

Any other ideas?


On Feb 6, 6:31 am, John McGhie wrote:
> Try turning off WYSIWYG fonts, and Show Project Gallery at Startup in
> Word>Preferences>General.
>
> Then quit and re-launch.
>
> This works for a lot of people.  Word 2008 launches quite snappily on this
> MacBook.  But it will struggle if you don't have enough memory: how much do
> you have?
>
> It will also struggle if you have a bad Normal template.  To replace your
> Normal.dotm, you need to hide not only Normal.dotm but all OLD versions of
> the pre-2008 Normal template, which was called just "Normal".  If you don't,
> Word 2008 imports crud from the previous version template instead of
> creating a clean one.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> On 6/02/08 4:04 PM, in article
> d8df68ea-6afc-480f-8a63-8bd477659....RemoveThis@f47g2000hsd.googlegroups.com, "nb"
>
>
>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > Every time I try to start up Word 08, I experience unusually slow
> > startup times.  I have tried disabling fonts, etc., to no avail.
>
> > Interestingly, if I try to start up Word 08 on Leopard's guest
> > account, it starts up fast.  I have isolated the problem to being
> > related to my login, but I have tried everything from deleting all
> > Microsoft preferences to deleting the normal files to disabling my
> > fonts.  None of these measures have solved the problem of slow startup
> > times for Word.
>
> > When I launch Word, my activity monitor indicates that it is using
> > anywhere from 98 - 100% of my system resources.  Many times this
> > triggers off loud fan noise from my Macbook.  This lasts for 1-2
> > minutes and then Word finally launches.
>
> > Any suggestions?
>
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 >> Stay informed about: Slow startup times 

Try turning off WYSIWYG fonts, and Show Project Gallery at Startup in
Word>Preferences>General.

Then quit and re-launch.

This works for a lot of people. Word 2008 launches quite snappily on this
MacBook. But it will struggle if you don't have enough memory: how much do
you have?

It will also struggle if you have a bad Normal template. To replace your
Normal.dotm, you need to hide not only Normal.dotm but all OLD versions of
the pre-2008 Normal template, which was called just "Normal". If you don't,
Word 2008 imports crud from the previous version template instead of
creating a clean one.

Hope this helps


On 6/02/08 4:04 PM, in article
d8df68ea-6afc-480f-8a63-8bd477659a3a.RemoveThis@f47g2000hsd.googlegroups.com, "nb"
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Every time I try to start up Word 08, I experience unusually slow
> startup times. I have tried disabling fonts, etc., to no avail.
>
> Interestingly, if I try to start up Word 08 on Leopard's guest
> account, it starts up fast. I have isolated the problem to being
> related to my login, but I have tried everything from deleting all
> Microsoft preferences to deleting the normal files to disabling my
> fonts. None of these measures have solved the problem of slow startup
> times for Word.
>
> When I launch Word, my activity monitor indicates that it is using
> anywhere from 98 - 100% of my system resources. Many times this
> triggers off loud fan noise from my Macbook. This lasts for 1-2
> minutes and then Word finally launches.
>
> Any suggestions?

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 >> Stay informed about: Slow startup times 

MC wrote:
> Can you safely save a *copy* of Normal under slightly different name? My
> Normal hasa few odds and ends and attributes that took a while to get
> the way I want them, and I don't relish the thought of having to
> recreate it from scratch. Hence a clean copy, just in case I need to
> replace the "real"Normal.
>
> So is something like "Normal copy" kept in a folder other than
> Applications going to screw things up?
>

No, but Normal isn't in Applications. :)

Also, John said drag it to the desktop, not delete it--just make it so
that Word doesn't find it. Renaming it as OldNormal is also fine.

You can recover your stuff from it later, see here
http://word.mvps.org/mac/MacWordNormal.html#Restore
 >> Stay informed about: Slow startup times 

In article ,
Daiya Mitchell wrote:

> MC wrote:
> > Can you safely save a *copy* of Normal under slightly different name? My
> > Normal hasa few odds and ends and attributes that took a while to get
> > the way I want them, and I don't relish the thought of having to
> > recreate it from scratch. Hence a clean copy, just in case I need to
> > replace the "real"Normal.
> >
> > So is something like "Normal copy" kept in a folder other than
> > Applications going to screw things up?
> >
>
> No, but Normal isn't in Applications. :)

SMACK -- the sound of one hand hitting my forehead...

>
> Also, John said drag it to the desktop, not delete it--just make it so
> that Word doesn't find it. Renaming it as OldNormal is also fine.

Good. Thanks.

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You can even *hide* it in the Trash as long as you don't empty the trash
until your satisfied with everything first. You can always drag it back
out if you need to use it for something.

Daiya Mitchell wrote:
> MC wrote:
>> Can you safely save a *copy* of Normal under slightly different name?
>> My Normal hasa few odds and ends and attributes that took a while to
>> get the way I want them, and I don't relish the thought of having to
>> recreate it from scratch. Hence a clean copy, just in case I need to
>> replace the "real"Normal.
>> So is something like "Normal copy" kept in a folder other than
>> Applications going to screw things up?
>>
>
> No, but Normal isn't in Applications. :)
>
> Also, John said drag it to the desktop, not delete it--just make it so
> that Word doesn't find it. Renaming it as OldNormal is also fine.
>
> You can recover your stuff from it later, see here
> http://word.mvps.org/mac/MacWordNormal.html#Restore

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Hi Phillip:

Yes, we know. But I do not consider that to be "safe" advice for users who
do not know how to do that.

If they don't know how to do it, the file in the trash will remain in use.

Cheers


On 9/02/08 10:48 AM, in article uZamymraIHA.5900 DeleteThis @TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl,
"Phillip Jones" wrote:

> You can even *hide* it in the Trash as long as you don't empty the trash
> until your satisfied with everything first. You can always drag it back
> out if you need to use it for something.
>
> Daiya Mitchell wrote:
>> MC wrote:
>>> Can you safely save a *copy* of Normal under slightly different name?
>>> My Normal hasa few odds and ends and attributes that took a while to
>>> get the way I want them, and I don't relish the thought of having to
>>> recreate it from scratch. Hence a clean copy, just in case I need to
>>> replace the "real"Normal.
>>> So is something like "Normal copy" kept in a folder other than
>>> Applications going to screw things up?
>>>
>>
>> No, but Normal isn't in Applications. :)
>>
>> Also, John said drag it to the desktop, not delete it--just make it so
>> that Word doesn't find it. Renaming it as OldNormal is also fine.
>>
>> You can recover your stuff from it later, see here
>> http://word.mvps.org/mac/MacWordNormal.html#Restore

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Hi NB,

My apologies! I was away from this group for a few days but now I'm back.
I'm sending my Normal template to you at the gmail address I see below. If
you don't receive it, send me a direct email from whatever address you want
me to send it to.

When you receive it, download it to your desktop and then drag it into
~/library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates. When asked
if you want to replace the current file, say Yes. Then come back here and
report the results!

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On 2/11/08 8:46 PM, in article C3D76FBB.100B7%john@mcghie.name, "John
McGhie" wrote:

> No "other" suggestions. I am waiting to see what happens when you try
> Beth's Normal.dotm
>
> The issue basically is that Word is pausing to "read data". It's getting
> about 20 MB from your Entourage database, some from its preferences, some
> from the Normal.dotm, some from Document Parts.dotx and some from the font
> cache.
>
> I "suspect" that you have fonts being enabled/disabled and causing the font
> cache to rebuild each launch. But I can't prove it. 400 is a huge font
> list: if each of those is between 300 kb and a meg in size, you could be
> running low on memory.
>
> The only other place I think would be worth looking is your Preference
> files. They are not large, but they can cause Word to conduct
> time-consuming operations at startup.
>
> I am running 200 fonts on the same machine without any slowdowns.
>
> So I am out of ideas.
>
>
> On 12/02/08 3:08 AM, in article
> 375ec3da-d19e-46bd-91a5-d771cb09349d RemoveThis @j20g2000hsi.googlegroups.com, "nb"
> wrote:
>
>> I have a set of about 400 fonts which I always keep enabled. By what
>> you wrote below, it seems that Word should take a while to start up
>> the first time, but once it has built the cache, subsequent restarts
>> should happen fairly fast. Since every startup (except the first) is
>> taking close to 50 seconds, I'm not sure what I can do to speed it
>> up... any other ideas?
>>
>>
>> On Feb 11, 2:54 am, John McGhie wrote:
>>> The User Database is your email file, if you are using Entourage.
>>>
>>> If you are not using Entourage, it holds various other things that Office
>>> would like to put in a database, such as contacts.
>>>
>>> Office 2008 uses yet another new format for the database, and 20 MB is about
>>> as small as it ever gets.
>>>
>>> When Office applications start up, they first check to see if there are any
>>> "new" fonts.  If there are, they will rebuild the Office Font Cache.  This
>>> will take a bit of time.
>>>
>>> Next time you restart the application, if nothing has changed, the font
>>> cache will be up-to-date and Word will simply use it.
>>>
>>> If you use a font manager that causes fonts to be enabled and disabled
>>> frequently, you could expect to have to rebuild the Office font Cache every
>>> startup.  Ideally, you would settle on a font collection containing only the
>>> fonts you actually use day-to-day, enable them, and leave them that way.
>>>
>>> If you have several hundred fonts, and you make changes to the active set
>>> dynamically, you can expect slow startup times :-)
>>>
>>> Personally, I believe this is a weak design.  The system has a font cache
>>> that it maintains automatically.  I believe that Microsoft Office should
>>> simply "use" the System Cache.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps
>>>
>>> On 11/02/08 2:28 PM, in article
>>> 73b8827b-70cf-48bf-ab60-c4986fde5... RemoveThis @s37g2000prg.googlegroups.com, "nb"
>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Per my previous post, if I re-enable my user fonts in Font Book, the
>>>> startup times for Word again increase to 50 seconds.
>>>
>>>> On Feb 10, 10:01 pm, nb wrote:
>>>>> Hi Beth,
>>>
>>>>> Sorry for the late reply to your post.  You have understood my problem
>>>>> correctly - 17 seconds when Word needs to create a new Normal template
>>>>> and 50 seconds when the normal template is already created
>>>>> previously.  I would definitely like to try it out with your
>>>>> normal.dotm to see what happens.
>>>
>>>>> How would you want to send it to me?
>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> NB
>>>
 >> Stay informed about: Slow startup times 

Thanks for sending the Normal template over Beth and no worries about
the delay. Here are the results:

- first time I started Word with your Normal.dotm file - 37 seconds
- second time - 24 seconds
- third time - around 24 seconds

Word is still starting on my guest account within 5 seconds.





On Feb 13, 1:40 pm, Beth Rosengard
wrote:
> Hi NB,
>
> My apologies!  I was away from this group for a few days but now I'm back.
> I'm sending my Normal template to you at the gmail address I see below.  If
> you don't receive it, send me a direct email from whatever address you want
> me to send it to.
>
> When you receive it, download it to your desktop and then drag it into
> ~/library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates.  When asked
> if you want to replace the current file, say Yes.  Then come back here and
> report the results!
>
> --
> ***Please always reply to the newsgroup!***
>
> Beth Rosengard
> Mac MVP
>
> Mac Word FAQ:  <http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html>
> My Site:  <http://www.bethrosengard.com>
>
> On 2/11/08 8:46 PM, in article C3D76FBB.100B7%j...@mcghie.name, "John
>
> McGhie" wrote:
> > No "other" suggestions.  I am waiting to see what happens when you try
> > Beth's Normal.dotm
>
> > The issue basically is that Word is pausing to "read data".  It's getting
> > about 20 MB from your Entourage database, some from its preferences, some
> > from the Normal.dotm, some from Document Parts.dotx and some from the font
> > cache.
>
> > I "suspect" that you have fonts being enabled/disabled and causing the font
> > cache to rebuild each launch.  But I can't prove it.  400 is a huge font
> > list: if each of those is between 300 kb and a meg in size, you could be
> > running low on memory.
>
> > The only other place I think would be worth looking is your Preference
> > files.  They are not large, but they can cause Word to conduct
> > time-consuming operations at startup.
>
> > I am running 200 fonts on the same machine without any slowdowns.
>
> > So I am out of ideas.
>
> > On 12/02/08 3:08 AM, in article
> > 375ec3da-d19e-46bd-91a5-d771cb093... RemoveThis @j20g2000hsi.googlegroups.com, "nb"
> > wrote:
>
> >> I have a set of about 400 fonts which I always keep enabled.  By what
> >> you wrote below, it seems that Word should take a while to start up
> >> the first time, but once it has built the cache, subsequent restarts
> >> should happen fairly fast.  Since every startup (except the first) is
> >> taking close to 50 seconds, I'm not sure what I can do to speed it
> >> up...  any other ideas?
>
> >> On Feb 11, 2:54 am, John McGhie wrote:
> >>> The User Database is your email file, if you are using Entourage.
>
> >>> If you are not using Entourage, it holds various other things that Office
> >>> would like to put in a database, such as contacts.
>
> >>> Office 2008 uses yet another new format for the database, and 20 MB is about
> >>> as small as it ever gets.
>
> >>> When Office applications start up, they first check to see if there are any
> >>> "new" fonts.  If there are, they will rebuild the Office Font Cache.  This
> >>> will take a bit of time.
>
> >>> Next time you restart the application, if nothing has changed, the font
> >>> cache will be up-to-date and Word will simply use it.
>
> >>> If you use a font manager that causes fonts to be enabled and disabled
> >>> frequently, you could expect to have to rebuild the Office font Cache every
> >>> startup.  Ideally, you would settle on a font collection containing only the
> >>> fonts you actually use day-to-day, enable them, and leave them that way.
>
> >>> If you have several hundred fonts, and you make changes to the active set
> >>> dynamically, you can expect slow startup times :-)
>
> >>> Personally, I believe this is a weak design.  The system has a font cache
> >>> that it maintains automatically.  I believe that Microsoft Office should
> >>> simply "use" the System Cache.
>
> >>> Hope this helps
>
> >>> On 11/02/08 2:28 PM, in article
> >>> 73b8827b-70cf-48bf-ab60-c4986fde5... RemoveThis @s37g2000prg.googlegroups.com, "nb"
>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> Per my previous post, if I re-enable my user fonts in Font Book, the
> >>>> startup times for Word again increase to 50 seconds.
>
> >>>> On Feb 10, 10:01 pm, nb wrote:
> >>>>> Hi Beth,
>
> >>>>> Sorry for the late reply to your post.  You have understood my problem
> >>>>> correctly - 17 seconds when Word needs to create a new Normal template
> >>>>> and 50 seconds when the normal template is already created
> >>>>> previously.  I would definitely like to try it out with your
> >>>>> normal.dotm to see what happens.
>
> >>>>> How would you want to send it to me?
>
> >>>>> Best,
> >>>>> NB
 >> Stay informed about: Slow startup times 

So my Normal cut the launch time in half (from before), but nothing close to
the 5 seconds of your guest account. Hmmm.

Does your guest account have access to the same 400 fonts as the main
account? I would assume not. If that's correct, copy all of those fonts to
the guest account's user font folder and see what happens. Does it all slow
down?

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On 2/13/08 11:13 AM, in article
d69b463c-8a03-4d43-9eda-f294c9a9bc24 RemoveThis @q21g2000hsa.googlegroups.com, "nb"
wrote:

> Thanks for sending the Normal template over Beth and no worries about
> the delay. Here are the results:
>
> - first time I started Word with your Normal.dotm file - 37 seconds
> - second time - 24 seconds
> - third time - around 24 seconds
>
> Word is still starting on my guest account within 5 seconds.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Feb 13, 1:40 pm, Beth Rosengard
> wrote:
>> Hi NB,
>>
>> My apologies!  I was away from this group for a few days but now I'm back.
>> I'm sending my Normal template to you at the gmail address I see below.  If
>> you don't receive it, send me a direct email from whatever address you want
>> me to send it to.
>>
>> When you receive it, download it to your desktop and then drag it into
>> ~/library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates.  When asked
>> if you want to replace the current file, say Yes.  Then come back here and
>> report the results!
>>
>> --
>> ***Please always reply to the newsgroup!***
>>
>> Beth Rosengard
>> Mac MVP
>>
>> Mac Word FAQ:  <http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html>
>> My Site:  <http://www.bethrosengard.com>
>>
>> On 2/11/08 8:46 PM, in article C3D76FBB.100B7%j...@mcghie.name, "John
>>
>> McGhie" wrote:
>>> No "other" suggestions.  I am waiting to see what happens when you try
>>> Beth's Normal.dotm
>>
>>> The issue basically is that Word is pausing to "read data".  It's getting
>>> about 20 MB from your Entourage database, some from its preferences, some
>>> from the Normal.dotm, some from Document Parts.dotx and some from the font
>>> cache.
>>
>>> I "suspect" that you have fonts being enabled/disabled and causing the font
>>> cache to rebuild each launch.  But I can't prove it.  400 is a huge font
>>> list: if each of those is between 300 kb and a meg in size, you could be
>>> running low on memory.
>>
>>> The only other place I think would be worth looking is your Preference
>>> files.  They are not large, but they can cause Word to conduct
>>> time-consuming operations at startup.
>>
>>> I am running 200 fonts on the same machine without any slowdowns.
>>
>>> So I am out of ideas.
>>
>>> On 12/02/08 3:08 AM, in article
>>> 375ec3da-d19e-46bd-91a5-d771cb093... RemoveThis @j20g2000hsi.googlegroups.com, "nb"
>>> wrote:
>>
>>>> I have a set of about 400 fonts which I always keep enabled.  By what
>>>> you wrote below, it seems that Word should take a while to start up
>>>> the first time, but once it has built the cache, subsequent restarts
>>>> should happen fairly fast.  Since every startup (except the first) is
>>>> taking close to 50 seconds, I'm not sure what I can do to speed it
>>>> up...  any other ideas?
>>
>>>> On Feb 11, 2:54 am, John McGhie wrote:
>>>>> The User Database is your email file, if you are using Entourage.
>>
>>>>> If you are not using Entourage, it holds various other things that Office
>>>>> would like to put in a database, such as contacts.
>>
>>>>> Office 2008 uses yet another new format for the database, and 20 MB is
>>>>> about
>>>>> as small as it ever gets.
>>
>>>>> When Office applications start up, they first check to see if there are
>>>>> any
>>>>> "new" fonts.  If there are, they will rebuild the Office Font Cache.  This
>>>>> will take a bit of time.
>>
>>>>> Next time you restart the application, if nothing has changed, the font
>>>>> cache will be up-to-date and Word will simply use it.
>>
>>>>> If you use a font manager that causes fonts to be enabled and disabled
>>>>> frequently, you could expect to have to rebuild the Office font Cache
>>>>> every
>>>>> startup.  Ideally, you would settle on a font collection containing only
>>>>> the
>>>>> fonts you actually use day-to-day, enable them, and leave them that way.
>>
>>>>> If you have several hundred fonts, and you make changes to the active set
>>>>> dynamically, you can expect slow startup times :-)
>>
>>>>> Personally, I believe this is a weak design.  The system has a font cache
>>>>> that it maintains automatically.  I believe that Microsoft Office should
>>>>> simply "use" the System Cache.
>>
>>>>> Hope this helps
>>
>>>>> On 11/02/08 2:28 PM, in article
>>>>> 73b8827b-70cf-48bf-ab60-c4986fde5... RemoveThis @s37g2000prg.googlegroups.com, "nb"
>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Per my previous post, if I re-enable my user fonts in Font Book, the
>>>>>> startup times for Word again increase to 50 seconds.
>>
>>>>>> On Feb 10, 10:01 pm, nb wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Beth,
>>
>>>>>>> Sorry for the late reply to your post.  You have understood my problem
>>>>>>> correctly - 17 seconds when Word needs to create a new Normal template
>>>>>>> and 50 seconds when the normal template is already created
>>>>>>> previously.  I would definitely like to try it out with your
>>>>>>> normal.dotm to see what happens.
>>
>>>>>>> How would you want to send it to me?
>>
>>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>> NB
>
 >> Stay informed about: Slow startup times 

Okay, I'm having this problem as well...

I'm running a MBP 2.16Ghz with 4GB RAM... I'm running pretty much all Apple Software and really no third party stuff...

Microsoft Word 2008 opens quickly to a blank sheet, but then it takes FOREVER before you can start typing... It will show that the "Application is not Responding", but then it will appear to be fine, then it won't, then it will, then it won't, and the beach ball will be there, then it will disappear... This will keep on going for some time... Then my system slows down and switching applications while Word is loading is a nightmare! BUT, when Word fully loads and is ready to be used, it is snappy and I have no more issues with speed... It is that initial load that is KILLING me! Any ideas?
 >> Stay informed about: Slow startup times 

do you have whole lot of fonts?

This sound like the same type problem I have with Acrobat 7.x using
either my G4-500 using OSX.3.9 or my Laptop PB 17" using X.4.11.

also check to see if word is being run in Rosetta. highlight word the do
Command (cloverleaf) - I If your using Leopard (X.5.x).


Ryan wrote:
> Okay, I'm having this problem as well...
>
> I'm running a MBP 2.16Ghz with 4GB RAM... I'm running pretty much all Apple Software and really no third party stuff...
>
> Microsoft Word 2008 opens quickly to a blank sheet, but then it takes FOREVER before you can start typing... It will show that the "Application is not Responding", but then it will appear to be fine, then it won't, then it will, then it won't, and the beach ball will be there, then it will disappear... This will keep on going for some time... Then my system slows down and switching applications while Word is loading is a nightmare! BUT, when Word fully loads and is ready to be used, it is snappy and I have no more issues with speed... It is that initial load that is KILLING me! Any ideas?

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 >> Stay informed about: Slow startup times 

No, I am only running the system fonts that came loaded on the computer... I have the Word ones disabled.

Under "Get Info" it is showing it running "Universal" with no word of Rosetta anywhere...

When I used the "Console" utility I found that when launching Word, it would write this message 3357 times before Word loaded completely:

2/18/08 12:21:51 AM Microsoft Word[3986] CGBitmapContextGetData: invalid context

Not sure exactly what it means, but it can't be good. Word takes forever to load, but when running it is fine. What gives?
 >> Stay informed about: Slow startup times 

I just loaded it again and this is what Console came up with... 354 times.

Start:
2/18/08 12:32:49 AM Microsoft Word[4015] CGBitmapContextGetData: invalid context

End:
2/18/08 12:35:08 AM Microsoft Word[4015] CGBitmapContextGetData: invalid context

My computer was practically unusable during this entire loading time of roughly 3 minutes!
 >> Stay informed about: Slow startup times