Excel and Word 2007 SLOW on Vista

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Steve Vincent

Hi,

I recently bought a new Dell Inspiron laptop from Best Buy, and also bought
MS Office Home/Student edition. The laptop is running Vista. Excel is
extremely slow and freezes ("not responding") with just about every editing
move I make. Same with Word. I saved-as to the 97-2003 format, and at first
it seemed to work fast, but then it started freezing again. It can take up
to 3 or 4 minutes just to change the font size in a cell. There isn't much
in the workbook (or document), just a simple table intended as a sign-up
sheet, with around 30 rows and two columns.

Things I have tried: I have opened the workbook and document with the
"repair" option. No change. I ran the installation disk again and ran the
Repair utility. Again, no change.

Does anyone have any suggestions of what to do to try and remedy this? Best
Buy included a free upgrade to Windows 7 when it comes out. Any opinions on
whether this is a Vista issue?

TIA,
Steve
 
Update: I just changed my default printer from a network printer downstairs
on our home wireless network, to CutePDF. This has "solved" the problem,
except for the fact that I would like my HP network printer to be the default
printer. This was never a problem on our previous laptops, only since
getting this Dell Inspiron with Vista and Office Home/Student 2007.

Why would having a network printer set as the default printer cause Office
2007 to run so extremely slow? Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly
appreciated.

TIA,
Steve
 
Unbelievable, just did the same thing Steve, fixed my problem. Same network
setup. I cant Imagine why a network printer would cause the slow problems,

Thanks for the find, I should have looked harder before I postes.
 
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