Microsoft Office hiccups

I just bought the new Macbookpro with 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4MB shared L2 cache and the ATI 1600. I installed the microsoft office teacher addition on my macbookpro and everything is good except that when I type it will lag. Sometimes I'll type a whole word before it will appear on the screen, and there is a lag time between the time I type and when it appears on the screen. I know this guy who said that it happened to him and eventually it goes away but I'm not sure. Is this a typical error, and will it correct itself eventually?
Thanks

 

Office 2004, is not a universal binary so there is a software 68k emulator at work under the covers. I've heard many people say they don't notice much difference, but my experience is even the simplest program using rosetta (the 68k emulator) is horrible slow.

When office 2007 for Mac comes out (late this year) it will be a universal app.

I would suggest using NeoOffice (a version of openOffice with native Mac GUI integration). Its Free and can save to MS formats (doc, xls, ppt etc)

 

Yeah Office 2004 for Mac is a little laggy.

Oh and the new version of Office for Mac is called Office 2008 so yeah another year for Mac users.

http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Off...s_sr_1/002-7270540-4148861?ie=UTF8&s=software

 

No, its coming out this year, Qhs, they just named it 2008. I think that's what you meant.

 

But I bought the Microsoft Office 2004 mac version, so isn't that native to mac?

 

Its native to a Mac PowerPC (Macs release prior to last year). Apple just converted to Intel processors last year and there are still quite a few applications that have not converted to native Intel.

Hence the need for the old PowerPC emulator (rosetta) on the Intel Macs. But its sloooowwww.

NeoOffice and OpenOffice anre native Intel apps though and provide aout 90% of the functionality of MS Office Professional.

 

Yep, PowerPC, not 68k...
if you have not done so, upgrade to the latest version of MSOffice, it speeds it up considerably. Other than that, since you already have lots of RAM, either try NeoOffice (heard it was bloated though) or OpenOffice (needs X11 installed, and is not consistent with Acqua) or wait till MSOffice 2008 for Mac is released.