[WinMac] Fwd: Has anyone seen this? MSWord98 and server volumes

Cesar Morales(cesar[at]UCSD.Edu)
Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:53:14 -0800

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Totally, I did the same thing to quicksolve the problem although we were
working on documents on Netware volumes. Our G3s were totally bogged down
until I deselected the "remember the last 9 (default) jobs
preference." My guess is the source volume is severely fragmented, maybe
the files ujhder the recently used list exist way deep in some
overrestricted share.

BTW, any idea on how to reduce the amount of RAM word98/excel98 need to
run, they guzzle 13/11 MB (and I thought those extra 32 MB I added to my
mac would go a long way) seems to me unreasonable for a word processor and
basic spreadsheets.

'm glad I am not alo0ne on this, I was about to use a bat on my Novell box.

Luck!

>From: Michael Curtis <bazmail@bazmac.demon.co.uk>
>Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 22:01:54 +0000
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>
> Hi,
>
> I went to a client today who is running Office 98 on about 20 Macs
>running systems from 7.5.3 to 8.5.1. All of them were suffering from the
>same fault. If you were to click on a menu it would take a seconds for the
>menu to come up. Just long enough for you to click again and so the menu
>would come up and go. Very annoying.
>
> As you clicked on the menu the network arrows would appear. It
>didn't matter if the job were opened from the server or the local hard disk.
>
> They have 3 shares on their NT server and if you were to log off
>one particular share (cake) the problem would go away.
>
> It turned out to be the "remember the last 9 (default) jobs
>preference." If this was turned off the problem would go away. The catch
>was, if you just threw the preferences away the problem would go, but
>slowly come back. I also turned off the WYSIWYG fonts for good measure.
>
> All the 8.5 Office's were patched. I wonder if anyone else had seen
>this. Is it an NT thing or just a server in general thing.
>
> Any comments would be welcome.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Michael Curtis.
>

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