Comments on: Office 2007: Good but SLOW

By: David Szpunar

David Szpunar — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:11:37 +0000

In reply to Garry. Hi Garry, Sorry for the delay in my reply, I must have missed the email notifying me of a new comment! I wrote a post specifically about charity pricing for non-profits. The gist is, you have to order through a reseller like Zones or Dell, or many others, who are authorized to sell at charity prices. My post on the topic goes into greater detail, and if you have questions you can contact me through the Contact page or another comment.

By: Garry

Garry — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:58:56 +0000

I was glad to find your site, since we are also a church on the westside of Indy.You mentioned in a earlier post about non profit pricing. How do you obtain non profit pricing I searched Microsoft site and did not find anything. We are in process of refreshing some hardware and software.

By: Renee

Renee — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:24:43 +0000

I had the same problems with Office 2007. The fix is to disable the add-ins. Go to tools-trust center-add-ins and click the “go” button. Disable all add-ins. They probably carried over from 2003 and don’t work anyway. Close and reopen Outlook. BIG change.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 02:16:37 +0000

Thanks for sharing your experience with Office 2007. I’m also a local Indy blogger, one of my blogs is The Unofficial Microsoft Weblog and another is Christian Music Fan.

By: Microsoft Weblog » Office 2007 Good… and slow

Microsoft Weblog » Office 2007 Good… and slow — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 02:12:56 +0000

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By: David Szpunar

David Szpunar — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:42:03 +0000

The laptop still has 2003 installed as well, except for Outlook (which must be exclusively 2003 or 2007), and they’re supposed to co-exist peacefully. I nearly never use 2003, however, so only 2007 is actually open at any one time almost always.

I did see someone’s brand new Vista laptop the other day running Office 2007, and it seemed more responsive. Is it because Excel 2007 was the only app running on her system at the time, or was it because it was running on Vista, or because 2003 wasn’t installed at all? I have no idea, I was helping her print something and it took less than five minutes, so I don’t have enough information; it’s just an observation.

I have noticed that switching to and from 2007 apps tends to be more sluggish than response time within the 2007 apps once they’re active (opening them is also reasonably slow). Once they’re active and running, they’re a lot smoother for the most part, but not sometimes. Also, in Outlook, opening new windows tends to be slow (new emails take a while to open up after I double-click them in my inbox, especially).

Might this be due to poor integrated graphics performance on my laptop? Again, not enough information!!

By: Bob Brown

Bob Brown — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:31:56 +0000

I am disappointed in that speed issue. Does the laptop have both 2003 & 2007 installed at the same time? Could that be an issue?

Office 2003 is very difficult to use. I am both worried about how people will take to the change and hopeful that it will make everyone here more productive.