Microsoft word for mac slow typing pdf#

And guess what? The document responded beautifully! No more achingly long Not responding messages in the Word 2010 title bar no more watching the ‘spinning wheel of death’ (as I like to call it) while waiting and waiting for the Word document to respond because it was trying to talk to my network printer.īut I have to question WHY Microsoft still ties things like Word documents so closely to the default printer.

Microsoft word for mac slow typing pdf#

In my case, the default printer is not only a networked printer, but when I opened this 300+ page document, the printer was turned off (it was a Sunday and I don’t use the printer all the time, especially on weekends).Īfter following the advice of people in this forum thread, I changed my default printer on the Vista laptop to Adobe PDF (Microsoft EPS works well too, I believe). If the default printer is a networked printer, then there can be response issues. And there is! And it’s not related to Vista at all, but to how a Word document interacts with the default printer.

So off to Google to see if there was an answer to this problem. I’ve been blaming Vista…īut when I started to edit a 300+ page Word 2010 document on my Vista laptop, the unresponsiveness was going to be a huge productivity drain. Word 2007 - and now Word 2010 - on my Vista laptop has often been very slow to load a document and to respond to a document command (like Save).