Files open very slow in the office 365 app due to the lack of adequate privileges provided by the mac. If your mac seems to be running slower than it should, the variety of tips here should help you identify and fix the problem. Yesterday i had the need to run windows and so fired up vmware fusion. If you have a machine that is connected to both wifi and ethernet, your issue could be caused by being connected to the network in two different ways. Sure, i have the base model 2014 macbook air but that 4 gb ram should run a freakin finder just fine. So we have run over the main methods to speed up a slow mac.
Workaround for the slow open save dialog box problem in os. I am not too tech savvy so any detailed help would be much appreciated. I recently installed microsoft office 365 on a two year old imac running yosemite. I started using office 2016 recently on my macbook pro running yosemite, and word can sometimes be very very slow while typing. Starting my virtual machine to run windows 7 on which my business software is located is slower than molasses in winter. I am using an almost new imac and have a business enterprise solution account with the programme installed on 4 office computers, however this problem is only affecting my computer. This is yet another common reason why users face mac is running slow issues. Both have office for mac 2011 with service pack 3 installed outlook 10. I have recently noticed that my excel for mac has become incredibly slow. Hi all so the long awaited video of how to install windows 8.
Office is slow or stops responding when you open file from. Its a common complaint that in recent versions of mac os 10. I do notice that if i move my mouse around in a circle on the screen everything loads quicker. Hi, i previously had my macbook pro retina, 15inch, mid 2014 bootcamping to windows 7 but recently upgraded windows 7 to windows 10 10162. Once an application is started it can take up to 5 minutes to open excel then it works without any problem. Get started quickly with new, modern versions of word, excel, powerpoint, outlook and onenotecombining the familiarity of office and the unique mac. If it doesnt run on yosemite, what is the latest osx that it does run on.
Jul 21, 2015 office 2011 for mac is so bad that i have a parallels install of windows on most of my macs, just to run office 20 in a windows virtual machine. The imac is very slow when opening programs or starting new tasks. Windows took over 10 minutes to boot up normally takes about 2 minutes using this particular vm. On a imac 2011 yosemite is very slow, much slower than mavericks. The rest of office 2011 word, excel, powerpoint work just fine in yosemite. It took five years from office 2011s release to get this latest mac office suite, but it was well worth the wait. Microsoft excel for mac is so slow microsoft community. If outlook for mac is running slowly, you might try moving messages out of the inbox or turn off logging. How to fix your slow mac postel capitan ultimate mac. Optimize your mac with these quick hacks to eliminate typing lag, slow load times, and ensure microsoft office runs flawlessly every time. Yosemite changes the look and feel of your mac, from eversotransparent windows to a completely new spotlight interface. Windows is a very non hard drive friendly os that takes up a ton of space just on the install, and then youll need some space for office, and then you dont want it to be full and run really slow while using it. Cant even switch to another word document and work on that.
When your mac runs slow, give it a tuneup cult of mac. I also did a cpu and memory test which was close, but mavericks won that too. Office 2011 for mac will work with yosemite, but not with outlook. When your hard drive gets too full, performance suffers. Right now, i have office 2011 running on my trusty 2010 macbook pro with a core i7 2. Reliability of office 2011 online with onedrive is variable for me i use this quite a lot for large 100 pages, lots of pictures collaborative documents it worked beautifully for a while last year, i lost data in spring 2015 and discovered a phenomenon whereby if my windows based collaborators edited in the browser instead of locally in. Sep 02, 2009 slow startup normal after installation of a mac os x upgrade note that slow startup after applying a mac os x update except in the case of directory or permissions damage as aforementioned is. The performance manager will automatically run a report and diagnose issues that are impacting your pc. Its extremely frustrating considering safari comes included with os x. If your macbook pro is slow only after updating to the latest macos version i. Youll notice the menu bar, dock, and your app windows are now opaque instead of. As much as i would love to just use pages, my university have problems opening the files, even when theyre converted so im stuck using word for the moment. By todays standards, 4gb ram is considered entry level.
Although, when youre facing unresponsive windows and slow load time more often these days, your mac definitely needs a boost. Yosemite and fusion 7 very very slow vmware communities. If your pc is running slowly, the following suggestions might help speed things up. Yosemite has made my macbook pro very slow etrecheck version. To find your macos version, mac model, memory, and storage space, choose about this mac from the apple menu. Turning off siri seems to have helped with computer speed. I just got my mac back from a repair 10 days before the warrantee ended lol. When you try to open a file from a network location in one of the microsoft office programs such as powerpoint 2003, excel 2003, publisher 2003 or a later version of them, the office program may run very slowly or may appear to stop responding hang. All macs begin to slow down with age macbook pro, imac, it doesnt matter. The graphicsui test seen here shows yosemite getting absolutely annihilated by mavericks.
The windows 10 may 2019 update adds a custom option, which lets you decide whether you want dark or. The latest version of office offers an interface that is optimized for os x yosemite, bringing a flatter look, and better integrates office with microsofts cloud services. Whether this is due to system or user error, it can slow the performance of your system down to a crawl. If youre trying to install office on a mac, follow the steps in uninstall office for mac, and then restart the office installation. But the weird thing is that only opening applications or starting new processes from the terminal is terribly slow. Very slow boot to windows 10 10162 macrumors forums. This can be fixed by using the repair disk permissions feature. Starting with mac office 2004, i noticed that it is always slower than its windows counterparts.
The tips are listed in order, so start with the first one, see if that. Booting to safe mode runs some builtin maintenance tasks, so when you get to the login window in. The whirly bird is my enemy and the machine runs really hot. Do your best workanywhere, anytime and with anyone. Parallels 10 running slow on yosemite page 3 parallels forums. Surprisingly, the feature set of office 2016 for mac is nearly. My old ibook 2008, running its original snow leopard, is performing much faster when watching the same videostream on both macs, the old macbook is seconds ahead on the imac and the video is smoother. On os x yosemite, this option can significantly speed up some older. The hidden costs of running windows on a mac zdnet. The published system requirements solely for os x 10. How to fix microsoft office for mac 2011 crashing in mac os x.
Excel 2016 extremely slow on yosemite microsoft community. Mac mail has very slow to sendreceive mail plus other bugs too. Whether this is due to system or user error, it can slow the performance of your system down to. Easy tips to speed up microsoft office on your mac macpaw.
Get started quickly with new, modern versions of word, excel, powerpoint, outlook and onenotecombining the familiarity of office and the unique mac features you love. Nov 24, 20 workaround for the slow open save dialog box problem in os x mavericks nov 24, 20 43 comments a fair amount of mac users running os x mavericks have discovered a peculiar slow speed issue when attempting to use various actions found in the file menu, including the open, save, and export dialog boxes. If your mac isnt compatible with macos catalina, the installer will let you know. Eventually, any mac is going to fill up with all kinds of garbage thats consuming resources, memory and disk space.
Store junk messages on the server checked delete junk messages when never. Smooth scrolling visual studio extension not working due to insufficient graphics performance. I just downloaded mac yosemite, im currently running the latest parallels 10. Select the primary hard disk of your mac and select first aid. Tinker tool system is a very good maintenance tool. I noticed my excel files are also opening slower, and sometimes safari seems slow when showing previous page or next page. Oct 17, 2014 this will load only a basic configuration of os x so the system will run slow and with limited features, but will also do things like check your disk for errors and clear some routine caches the system creates and uses.
Previously office 2008 the license was for 5 household computers, now only 1. Jul 02, 2016 over time, many mac computers can become slow. Nov 15, 2014 the other one is a macbook air 2012 with 8gb ram, 512 gb ssd with an upgrade from maverick to yosemite. Nov 07, 2014 this video will show you how to install windows 8. This is what happened when i ran a virtual machine, running windows 7 and office 20.
My parents also have an imac which they bought brand new a couple of years ago which has become almost unusable due to its extremely slow speed. Ms word for mac is really slow microsoft community. Mac s version is a bit more systemwide, with some older windows dialogs still not darkened. Scrolling between cells in excel 2016 for mac is slow. If you feel like os x and your mac is running slower since updating to. If youre installing office on a pc desktop, laptop, or 2in1, try these solutions in the order listed. Parallels 10 running slow on yosemite page 3 parallels.
To clean up mac drive means optimizing the drive, which macos catalina can do it. And if your cantlivewithout it windows app is microsoft office or an accounting program or a. This is a trial version that you can testing for 14 days. Although there are some who claim that their computers performance dramatically improved, certain users say the opposite and complain of the following problems.
To get the latest update, open excel for mac, go to the help check for updates menu, and follow the instructions in the autoupdate app. I checked out most of the blogs and everything and have removed widgets from the notification center, but everything seems to run kinda slowly. The issue is that, using outlook, in both apples, is very slow when outlook is on line. If not reset everything back as it was before trying. The first time you open a document word, excel or powerpoint. Id already upgraded to fusion 7 as version 6 has yosemite compatibility issues. Aug 26, 2016 microsoft office 2016 for the mac is the kind of upgrade i hope for but rarely get. I also had extremely slow mail using yosemite until i did this. Parallels 10 running slow on yosemite parallels forums.
Nov 18, 2014 i have a macbook pro mid2009 running vmware fusion 6. Moving forward, as new major versions of macos are made generally available, microsoft will drop support for. From the mail menu, click preferences accounts mailbox behaviors. Macbook pro mid2012 and ive noticed issues with microsoft office as well, in particular with word. Parallels 10 running slow on yosemite page 2 parallels. Performing several heavy tasks at a time, your mac may get slower, and its okay.
Now when i boot to windows it starts to load with the windows icon and circular dots but then goes to a nearly black screen for about 3 or 4 minutes before the win10 login screen comes up. After upgrading to yosemite all actions take an extremely long time in windows. I also dont really want to upgrade to office 2011 to find they release new office in 2014 or soon after. I have been using microsoft office mac since the 2004 version. Tips to improve pc performance in windows 10 windows help. How to manage small problems after upgrading to os x yosemite. But what hasnt changed is how you get itfollowing in the footsteps of. For example, photos can take a while to update the entire picture library. After booting successfully into safe mode, restart your mac normally and see if it performs better. I have a mac mini mid 2011, 8gb ram with yosemite which is getting slower and slower.
To provide you with the best experience, office for mac supports apples three most recent versions of macos. Since the day vmware came out, virtualizing os x quickly became a peculiar resource for most it professionals, including software developers interested in writing applications for iphone, ipad and mac using xcode wth objectivec or swift without being forced to buy a mac system administrators wanting to test experimental configurations andor simulating changes in a secure environment. I have friends running on mountain lion, mavericks, yosemite, and even snow leopard. Restart your mac and hold commandr down immediately, to boot into recovery mode. If youre using one of these computers with os x mavericks or later, you can install macos catalina.
Microsoft os requirements for office 2019 for mac and. Apples yosemite has been the most ambitious os x release in unifying the desktop and ios mobile devices. We all know that mac s hard drive gets filled quickly due to space issues, and with these, the temporary and junk files eat up even more space. As with a windows pc, there are many reasons a mac might be slow. Vmware fusion running slow under yosemite mike thomas. Outlook for mac 2011 running slow question about outlook. If microsoft office for mac 2011 is crashing when it starts up in mac os x 10. I had updated to yosemite a few weeks before it died, no causal relationship i am sure, but i did notice that my guest os was running very slow the fix worked great for me. Luckily for you, it will also recommend solutions for each problem found. Store draft messages on the server leave unchecked. Im having issue with cpu usage running vmware fusion 7 on os x yosemite 10. This behavior may occur if the connection to the network location is lost during the time.