Vista - Microsoft Office Professional 2007

I have a trial version on Office Professional 2007 but my old files were on
Office 2003. It takes a while after I get into each file before I can work
in it and it takes a while to save the file. What can I do? Do I need to
update Vista for it to work faster? I have had a horrible time since getting
this computer with Vista. It's either been Office not working properly or
printing taking so long because of networking.

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http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com....vista.general

Wanda,

You should update MS Office 2007 via Windows Update (upgrade to Windows
Ultimate Extras from W.U.). If you haven't already, go into 'Word Options >
Save', change the default save format from 'Word Document (* .docx)' to
'Word 97-2003 Document (*.doc)'.
Also, if you have you been saving your files with the 'The Web Server'
checked it will also slow the process down.

ps-You should probably be asking this in the Word group.

Drew

"Wanda Myers" <Wanda Myers@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Wanda Myers wrote:Wanda,

There are numerous reasons why a computer running Vista may have
"problems." (No doubt many fanti-bois will say it's Vista itself...
their opinion...) Some of the top reasons, in my humble opinion, are:

#1: Crapware that came pre-installed on the computer.
#2: Crappy drivers (though this is less of an issue than it was when
Vista was first released.)
#3: Crappy AV software... u don't have Symantec by any chance?

When you say "...Office not working properly..." are you talking about
Office 2003 or your trial version of 2007? (Would assume the latter, but
know that assumptions can be wrong.)

When you say "...printing taking so long because of networking." How do
you know networking is the issue?

And... more hw specs would help... how much RAM? How large is the hard
drive and how much free space is available? Although it is unusual to
see systems ship with 512MB RAM these days, there were systems that
shipped with 512MB RAM when Vista was first released and that is not
enough RAM to run Vista, imho.

Regards,

Lang

Hi, I work with computers since the last 10 years and more professionaly since these last two years. Any laptop or desktop that a client gets new from the shop, i take 4 hours to get it ready before that person starts to work and play with it for the first time. All to deactivate, configurate and personalize it for the client. Its true that mostly sellers don´t do this, and mostly the users are only users, not programers, and mostly courses of IT don´t teach nothing essencial to configurate a machine but to only work with the pc. Thats where i earn working independent, couse i would not work for any computer shop - lying and cheating people around. Or if not, there´s no money to justify my skills, once again, lying to people.
Most of this and other forums proves the fault of confidence given to shops, cause many things can be solved on the spot in a matter of minutes or a couple of hours, but people feel more like to try solving the matters, with the help of others, by themselfs. It proves more unlike to get out with solutions then to get by with sucess. About the RAM, 2 Gigs its the proper figure for Vista. Anything less its a joke to clear out warehouses from old computers. Its true also, half of a new laptop comes full of junk trials, junk configuration, junk services unecessary for the particular user and it needs to be changed just before anything. Anyone gets the office pro full version, Nero, avast pro anti virus, spyware Doctor, some dvd player and thats only a start. Symantec anti virus its heavy in any laptop, consumes memory like a camel and uses more the pc then us, and its a stupid trial asking for a registration colecting our data and asking for money to pay the service. Office trial, the same crap, finish the trial, finish the funtions, but once again, colects our data, asks for money, etc, its legedit, but its realy necessary? Like this nobody can complain about the pc getting slow in the next couple of weeks of use,
when barely mostly don´t know what a type writer is but important its our rigth for privacy and we buy a pc two or four times more the original cost just to start paying someone to clean this garbage, again and again. But we pay for them to do what we barely don´t now what and after a month things get stuck again. Isn´t Vista, Xp, Linux, Mac, etc, the main problem, it´s the lack of knowledge or information that we have for some reason or other motive and the habits that sundently people are manipulated to faul by the beautiful elements that Vista gives, consuming memory, resources, like the side panel with gadgets, uac control, automatic restore points, automatic defragmentation, automatic windows updates, automatic microsoft windows defender, pen and input devices, Vista games that part of them aren´t used, People near me, table pc settings, well it never ends, but everybody has to configurate this stuff one by one to deactivate thus improving all the system balance. Its ease isn´t? I know its not.
So here we are, making ower best and giving an enfort.
I may in the future get some tricks and tips explained for solving Vista into your best necessities by colecting links and or reliyng personal experience for most problem solving matters that arise around here.

Yours, Miguel.