Office 2007 exceedingly slow on Vista 64, help!

I have problems with Powerpoint 2007 on XP on a decently quick laptop. Is
this software so poorly optimized that using the newer presentation features
means slow response and a hanging PowerPoint from time to time on a 2Ghz
Pentium M with 2GB RAM?

Worse though is my Excel 2007 issue and this is one I really need help with.
On Vista 64 Ultimate, I have Excel 2007 running and it is exceptionally
slow, even with moderate amounts of data. The computer is an Intel Core 2
Duo running at 3Ghz with 4GB RAM.

I'll use my current example: I have relatively small data set of 11 columns
of 1200 data points each. I'm attempting to make a series of plots of this
data however just clicking on a data series to disable the markers (even
though I select scatter plot with only lines and no data point markers) takes
30 seconds to bring up the options to do so.

I also wanted to plot one of the data series' on another vertical axis for
two different plots. Each one took about 3 minutes to complete as I waited
for Excel to get its act together. CPU and RAM are not maxing out, far from
it, but Excel can't keep this coordinated at all while consuming over a
quarter gig of RAM.

Is there some fix, or optimization to make Excel tolerable on Vista 64?

I don't know about Excel, but with PPT, we don't see too many reports of
excessive slowness.

I would recommend changing hardware acceleration
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00129.htm, updating video drivers, and making sure
you have a local printer driver installed and set as the default printer
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00605.htm

Also make sure you don't have any Office plug-ins enabled on your antivirus
program. See, for example, http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00387.htm

Also disable any add-ins you may have installed. (Office Button | PPT
Options | Add-ins) Some actually come installed as part of PPT -- they'll
show with "Document Inspector" listed in the "Type" column and will probably
be listed as "Inactive Application Add-ins. You can ignore those, they're
not a problem. But if you have others, try disabling them.

If those don't work, then I suggest you post to the PowerPoint group and
mention the things you've tried to correct the problem as well as specifics
regarding what "using the newer presentation features" means.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/


"emorphien" <emorphien@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:501FCA8B-209A-4143-AF74-C4B341F4AB7B@microsoft.com...
>I have problems with Powerpoint 2007 on XP on a decently quick laptop. Is
> this software so poorly optimized that using the newer presentation
> features
> means slow response and a hanging PowerPoint from time to time on a 2Ghz
> Pentium M with 2GB RAM?
>
> Worse though is my Excel 2007 issue and this is one I really need help
> with.
> On Vista 64 Ultimate, I have Excel 2007 running and it is exceptionally
> slow, even with moderate amounts of data. The computer is an Intel Core 2
> Duo running at 3Ghz with 4GB RAM.
>
> I'll use my current example: I have relatively small data set of 11
> columns
> of 1200 data points each. I'm attempting to make a series of plots of
> this
> data however just clicking on a data series to disable the markers (even
> though I select scatter plot with only lines and no data point markers)
> takes
> 30 seconds to bring up the options to do so.
>
> I also wanted to plot one of the data series' on another vertical axis for
> two different plots. Each one took about 3 minutes to complete as I
> waited
> for Excel to get its act together. CPU and RAM are not maxing out, far
> from
> it, but Excel can't keep this coordinated at all while consuming over a
> quarter gig of RAM.
>
> Is there some fix, or optimization to make Excel tolerable on Vista 64?

For the Excel charting problem, see
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938538 "Description of the Excel 2007
hotfix package: June 13, 2007".

emorphien wrote:

> I have problems with Powerpoint 2007 on XP on a decently quick laptop. Is
> this software so poorly optimized that using the newer presentation features
> means slow response and a hanging PowerPoint from time to time on a 2Ghz
> Pentium M with 2GB RAM?
>
> Worse though is my Excel 2007 issue and this is one I really need help with.
> On Vista 64 Ultimate, I have Excel 2007 running and it is exceptionally
> slow, even with moderate amounts of data. The computer is an Intel Core 2
> Duo running at 3Ghz with 4GB RAM.
>
> I'll use my current example: I have relatively small data set of 11 columns
> of 1200 data points each. I'm attempting to make a series of plots of this
> data however just clicking on a data series to disable the markers (even
> though I select scatter plot with only lines and no data point markers) takes
> 30 seconds to bring up the options to do so.
>
> I also wanted to plot one of the data series' on another vertical axis for
> two different plots. Each one took about 3 minutes to complete as I waited
> for Excel to get its act together. CPU and RAM are not maxing out, far from
> it, but Excel can't keep this coordinated at all while consuming over a
> quarter gig of RAM.
>
> Is there some fix, or optimization to make Excel tolerable on Vista 64?