Hi,
Our company recently got the whole MSDN/MS Partner folder, and since Office 2007 was one of the CDs in the package I decided to give it a bash.
At that time I still had my old laptop, AMD Turion 64 with 1GB of RAM, running XP Pro. Off the bat, I noticed that the responsiveness of the apps (Outlook, Word and Excel in particular) seemed to be slower and in general felt more sluggish that 2003 did. I attributed this to my laptop getting on a bit, and I purchased a new one, C2D 2.0GHz, 2GB of RAM, this time running Vista Business 32bit.
I feel that Office 2007 is still slower - sometimes, writing emails lags so far behind my input, that I have to stop, close the email I'm writing, then open the draft and go on. This happens for no apparent reason.
The really, really bad part comes when I need to open an .xls spreadsheet or a .doc which is attached to an email. This is an excrutiating process which can sometimes take up to a minute to a minute and a half, during which I pretty much want to tear my hair out. I have modified the command line parameters for opening the file (got rid of the "/n" , added an "%1", played with DDE) but do what I can I simply can not get it to open at the same pace it does in Office 2003, and this is substantiated by comapring with my wife's laptop - which is running XP and 2003.
Has anyone else found this? I have read some articles that discussed the same symptopms, but nothing offers a solution. Is this because there isn't one, meaning that Office 2007 is a rushed product, seriously lacking?
Should I uninstall it and go back to 2003?
Our company recently got the whole MSDN/MS Partner folder, and since Office 2007 was one of the CDs in the package I decided to give it a bash.
At that time I still had my old laptop, AMD Turion 64 with 1GB of RAM, running XP Pro. Off the bat, I noticed that the responsiveness of the apps (Outlook, Word and Excel in particular) seemed to be slower and in general felt more sluggish that 2003 did. I attributed this to my laptop getting on a bit, and I purchased a new one, C2D 2.0GHz, 2GB of RAM, this time running Vista Business 32bit.
I feel that Office 2007 is still slower - sometimes, writing emails lags so far behind my input, that I have to stop, close the email I'm writing, then open the draft and go on. This happens for no apparent reason.
The really, really bad part comes when I need to open an .xls spreadsheet or a .doc which is attached to an email. This is an excrutiating process which can sometimes take up to a minute to a minute and a half, during which I pretty much want to tear my hair out. I have modified the command line parameters for opening the file (got rid of the "/n" , added an "%1", played with DDE) but do what I can I simply can not get it to open at the same pace it does in Office 2003, and this is substantiated by comapring with my wife's laptop - which is running XP and 2003.
Has anyone else found this? I have read some articles that discussed the same symptopms, but nothing offers a solution. Is this because there isn't one, meaning that Office 2007 is a rushed product, seriously lacking?
Should I uninstall it and go back to 2003?