[DM-MUG] X and Office

[Victoria L. Herring]

>as a mostly basic-level user who hasn't yet made much use of all the 
>great "digital hub" apps that come with X, i'm sorely disappointed 
>with  the speed of X (10.2.6) and ms's office for X.  all elementary 
>functions like opening, saving, re-sizing are excruciatingly slow - 
>on both crt imac 500 g3 with a gig of memory and 12" pb g4 with 
>maxed out-memory.  though a neanderthal with technology generally, 
>even i managed to learn my way around 8.1-9.2 enough to do 
>installations and occasionally a little trouble-shooting. X remains 
>utterly opaque to me even after using for a year. i hope panther 
>improves on some of the os basics and comes with some training 
>material suited to the non-tech user.
>for my taste, office is a bloated, fuzzy-looking mess compared to 
>its '98 iteration, in spite of some improved features.  i prefer 
>using '98 in classic (and find it faster!) when i don't need a new 
>feature.

I think you need to do some basic maintenance == repair permissions 
and if you need, run Disk Utility (booting into CD of 10.2) to verify 
and repair disk;  run fsck -y.  Are you leaving on your computer all 
the time, so it does it's nightly maintenance?
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