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Unusually high CPU usage in MS Word?
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: New Zealand
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Hello all,
I'm running 10.4.9 on a PB G4 with 1.5G of RAM, and am using MS Word 2004.
This is what my CPU usage looks like just after I log in:
This is what it looks like when I open the file I'm working on (60k, 7 pages, has both English and Japanese text in it):
And this is what the CPU usage is like when I scroll through the document. The left side is when I scroll slowly, and the right side is when I scroll quickly:
A copy of the file I'm using is available here. For reference, I get less CPU usage (it's still there, but not as much) and smoother scrolling on a 5.4MB, 122 page word file.
It seems strange to me that something seemingly as simple as scrolling through a Word document would put that much of a load on the CPU. Does anyone know if this is normal?
Thanks.
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Jun 2007
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That is actually a little odd considering that your Powerbook runs on a PPC Processor and not an Intel CPU which eliminates the need for Rosetta emulation software. Your RAM looks pretty good too, what I would do is try to repair permissions and verify that everything that is running the way it should.
As a last resort I would try to go ahead and reinstall Microsoft Office from stratch and make sure that you have installed all the updates via Microsoft AutoUpdate. I also noticed that your running Mac OSX 10.4.9 maybe you should try upgrading to Mac OSX 10.4.10 perhaps the issues has been resolved in the update.
EDIT: I opened the same file with my Macbook and got these results. Keep in mind that I'm using an Intel CPU.
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Last edited by Sethro; Jun 27, 2007 at 10:22 PM.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jul 2003
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I've got a 1st Gen Black MacBook with 2GB of Ram and Word idles the same as Sethro and when scrolling up and down hits 50-60%
NeoOffice on the same doc idles at 0.10%, scrolling 20-24%
Both Word and NeoOffice are the latest version running on 10.4.10
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Join Date: May 2002
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Just throwing out a wild guess, but could it be the check spelling and grammar as you type feature that might be causing such a high level of usage?
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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Turn off Live Word Count. This helps a lot. For some reason, Live Word Count really sucks up processor cycles. Classic Microsoft-for-Mac programming (read: crappy).
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