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Slow start Office Mac
My Office applications for Mac (especially Word) bounce approximately 46 times in the dock, before temporarily freezing and then finally presenting a document to work in. So starting up takes more t...
nic222 I did find a solution, but that solution was to change my hard drive to a SSD drive. Since then all Office products run very fast. Apparently the programs were not designed for use with an old-fashioned hard drive...
albert231370 thanks for your reply.
I have a 1TB fusion drive. I’m running the latest version of Office and my Mac is running Big Sur 11.5.2. (which is the latest version). My Mac is just over a year old - 3.2 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7, 16 GB ram. I thought the spec would be ample to handle office!
nic222 Hm, yes, one would think that should do the trick... I didn't have a Fusion drive, but an old-fashioned hard drive, so the upgrade was defendable. Anyway, for me the upgrade to SSD was the only thing that was helpful.