[Bushpk9]

I'm Sick and Tired of beachballing while printing and Microsoft office.

I've been strugling with this for some time now. I switched to this mac PMG5 in august and installed Office Mac 2004 (student and teacher) the day I got the machine. Worked fine and all, I was real excited for the mac etc. I have been looking at these machines them for years.

After a month or two, printing in iphoto started to beachball or hang. It beachballed until you forced quit, but you open iphoto again to print and the same thing would happen. The only solution I have found is to restart the computer and print as soon as I login. This same problem happens with all apps when I go to print in them.

The last few months or so i've been trying to open excel documents to edit/update, but excel hangs and beachballs until you force quit, only solution like above is to reset and open as soon as I login.

This is real frustrating for just trying to print things or opening simple excel documents, and real frustrating when i praise the mac for being so much better than windows and then it beachballs and hangs.

Things I've tried:
MacJanitor
Disk Utility, Repair disk permissions

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

[Macola]

Did you try (in this order):
a) Checking for damaged fonts (FontBook can do this)
b) Clearing out the font caches (you can do this through a utility like OnyX or manually)?

[JKT]

Try Printer Setup Repair

Make sure you read the instructions thoroughly before using it.

[moonmonkey]

Have you updated the app?

www.microsoft.com/mac

[imitchellg5]

RAM RAM RAM. RAM is good.

[bergy]

Have a look at this good info ...

The Spinning Beach Ball of Death by
Dr. Smoke
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/sbbod.html