Excel Slow When Copying Mac OS X Lion And

I removed all the fonts from this folder (putting them in a temp folder on the desktop) and microsoft office ran like a dream immediately.

Then Excel just began running incredibly slow as everyone here has experienced.

It definitely seems to be a Font related problem, and since I could create a new user on my machine and Excel ran fine from that login, I did some detective work with fonts and worked out a way to strip down fonts in my regular account log in.

This is how I got everything running at normal speed again.

Some will be system fonts and will require you to enter your passwordgo ahead and do itget them all out of your system.

Under FILE, select RESTORE STANDARD FONTS.

You will probably get a message saying that some of the standard fonts are missing and asking you to restore them by reinstalling the operating systemdont bother doing it though.

The missing fonts are likely ones that got tossed out when you VALIDATED FONT and threw out the ones causing warningserrors.

Open your OS Library and look for the FONT folder.

Open the FONTS (REMOVED) folder and find the MICROSOFT folder.

Drag this back into your FONTS folderit will proceed to copy over.

FONTS (REMOVED) and a new copy will be formed in FONTS.

Finally, for good measure use Disk Utility to repair disk permissions and then restart.

This processed worked on my brand new Macbook Pro running Mountain Lion, as well as my wifes 2 year old Macbook Pro running Mountain Lion.

I spent 3 hours searching forums and testing things yesterday and this finally worked.hopefully it can save others from wasting as much time as I was forced to.

Excel Slow When Copying Mac OS X Lion And

We were running Mac OS X Lion and the latest version of Office and had problems with Excel being horribly slow as well.

I did some testing and noticed that when I turned off Suitcase Font Management that Excel ran fine.

I assumed it was a confict with Suitcase so I contacted Extensis to see if they were aware of any issues with their product and Office.

They did some testing on their end and could also reproduce the issue, but it turned out that it was not a conflict with Suitcase, but rather the fact that Office expects at least two of the Office fonts (Arial.ttf and Calibri.ttf) to be active.

Since we use many fonts in our graphics businees we try to streamline our basic fonts and only have those active that we use on a regular basis so we had removed all Office fonts and did not have the expected fonts loaded.

Once I added them back into our active fonts Office sped up quite nicely, No more slow copy, paste or print.

So you may want to check out your fonts to make sure these two are active on your system.

Since we use Suitcase for font management I simply loaded them in with our standard font set through Suitcase, but if you dont use Suitcase make sure they are in one of the appropirate Mac OS font folders so that they load at startup then reboot your computer and give Office another try.

There isnt a Microsoft Knows Best switch as such, what I meant by that was all the Preferences that do things automatically.

These can be a huge drain on resource, because the program is constantly looking for things to improve or check.

In other words go to preferences and turn of everything that probably uses the word Automatically.(do something).

As further update on my post, I did get to the root cause of the problem, and although the above helped eventually I got the problem back so the above isnt the solution.

Basically there appears to be a conflict with the fonts that Microsoft uses when you install Office, and the fonts that may already be installed on your mac.

Firstly the mac has a default set of fonts that you cannot and should not remove.

Then there is the next level of fonts, that you may have purchased, or had installed by various programs.

These are found on Macintosh HD Library Fonts This is where I found the conflict.

Excel For Mac Slow When Copying