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From: Shaun on 10 Jun 2010 09:18
Just updated to ver. 12.2.5 and noticed that it takes the program about
12-13 seconds to shut down and quit. No docs open, clean screen, iMac
21.5, 4 GB memory, OS X 10.6.3. Why so long?

Not sure how long previous version took but other word processors
currently installed (Pages, NeoOffice) quit instantaneously.
From: William Clark on 10 Jun 2010 09:26
In article <huqomq$rr8$1(a)news.albasani.net>, Shaun <sheep(a)sheep2.net>
wrote:

> Just updated to ver. 12.2.5 and noticed that it takes the program about
> 12-13 seconds to shut down and quit. No docs open, clean screen, iMac
> 21.5, 4 GB memory, OS X 10.6.3. Why so long?
>
> Not sure how long previous version took but other word processors
> currently installed (Pages, NeoOffice) quit instantaneously.

I find everything Word 2008 does is interminably slow. I have ditched it
for Pages for just that reason.
From: Shaun on 10 Jun 2010 10:08
William Clark wrote:
> In article <huqomq$rr8$1(a)news.albasani.net>, Shaun <sheep(a)sheep2.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Just updated to ver. 12.2.5 and noticed that it takes the program about
>> 12-13 seconds to shut down and quit. No docs open, clean screen, iMac
>> 21.5, 4 GB memory, OS X 10.6.3. Why so long?
>>
>> Not sure how long previous version took but other word processors
>> currently installed (Pages, NeoOffice) quit instantaneously.
>
> I find everything Word 2008 does is interminably slow. I have ditched it
> for Pages for just that reason.


Yeah, I really don't use it either. Exceptions are sometimes a client
will send me an Office document that my other apps can't open keeping
the formatting intact so I use Mac MS Office. I also might use it to
prepare presentation slides I have to send in advance of a meeting--
PowerPoint being the defacto standard.

Actually, I'm a Mac switcher (about 9 months now) who used WordPerfect
for the last 20 years. I've got about 7,000 documents I created over the
years and of course, Pages won't open them. NeoOffice does a half-decent
job though and I'm slowly converting the ones I use to Pages.

I'm self-employed and have to admit that I've kept one of my old Windows
notebooks to handle situations I can't Mac...
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