Hi, I've just given a new laptop by my company which is a Macbook Air 11,6 inch with 128GB SSD. It came preinstalled with Office 365. However, I find the programs are slow and buggy especially Excel and Powerpoint. The computer takes time every time I moved to another cell and some features that's on windows version is missing.
Mar 19, 2014 After trying on two Mavericks computers and two hours of office 365 support it is clear that the Office 365 version of Office 11 is incompatible with OSX Mavericks. For new installs you are unable to validate Office 2011 install using your Office 365 credentials.
Is there any solution to this? Microsoft office is essential for my job. I've tried bootcamp and installed Windows 7 but it's also problematic, it takes forever to load and sometimes it's just won't. Safari, of course. But your comment about Firefox reveals you're running an old Air, because Firefox is still being made for Macs, just not the old models that can only run the old OSes. So, they gave you an old shitty computer. Weak processor.
I'd complain and ask for something more recent. Another option is to use Office 365 in the browser.
Outlook in particular is a resource hog. I ended up running it in the browser for Office 365 and it helped a lot in reducing slowdowns. There are a few functions like mail merge you'll have to fire up the app for but 99% of the time the browser version of Outlook is just fine. For that matter, the web versions of Word and Excel will cover a lot of day-to-day work, too. Not seeing this on my 2012 Macbook Air with 4Gb and 128Gb SSD, but I'm not much of a power user either. Excel takes a bit to load but once up it's fine for me.
Even slower on my iMac with 1Tb HHD. The slow launch is due to the app package size.
Excel 2016 is 1.69Gb now that it has associated resources, libraries, and fonts embedded in it. Excel 2011 was about 200Mb itself with separate library files loaded as needed. It takes a while to sift through all that data. I have experienced a consistent hang in the office apps, especially Excel and Word. Bolding text, the first time, there's a hang for a few seconds. Then it seems to work fine.
Doesn't seem to matter what font. Oh and the font drop down takes a while on first use too, I'm assuming while the system re-caches the font list. That's probably more me than the system as I currently have 1689 fonts installed. Edit I wanted to add that I also run Office 365 on a Windows 7 Pro system (Dell 2100 All-in-One with 6Gb RAM) and the difference is night and day compared to Mac. The Win versions load almost instantly and don't have the interface hangs the Mac version does. That's to be expected I guess as MS has always treated Mac like a stepchild.
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