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Slow start Office Mac
albert23 If you create a new user account on the Mac and try, does it produce the same result? I wonder if its something in your iCloud account/keychain that is causing the issue and come back following a reinstall.
PaulaSillars Thanks for the suggestion! I tried it, but Word did not start significantly faster. And still the issue that the first start-up takes longer than restarting the app directly after quitting it.
Any other suggestions?
albert23 Do you have any firewall or antivirus installed?
When you did the reinstallation of OSX, did you install Office before installing any other applications?
I wonder if there is something interfering with the startup process of the application? Though why its significantly slower following a machine start rather than an application quit I'm not sure.
If you start the machine up, wait say 5 minutes and try to start Office, does it still take ages to start?
Thank you very much for your suggestions, but no antivirus and no extra firewall except the firewall that MacOS automatically puts up.
And I did try every possible sequence of installing and re-installing Office and MacOSX with no permanent improvement.
Also waiting for 5 minutes after starting up the computer does not affect the initial start-up-time of the Office application.
I too believe that something must be interfering, but I can't figure out what.
I tried removing extra fonts and yesterday I tried configuring OneDrive, thinking that perhaps Office applications by default want to work with OneDrive and are looking for it at start-up. Strange enough having OneDrive active the start-up-time got increased, even after an application quit.
Any other suggestions?
albert23 I'm running out of ideas now.
There are some good tips on this link https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/word-runs-very-slow-on-my-mac/93cc3f49-ac67-43b9-8e81-52501254cea2
I'm hoping someone else will jump in and offer some suggestions for you. 🙂