5/29/2020 Office 16 For Mac Slow To Open
I've been using Office 2016 for Mac as my everyday office productivity suite since it went into beta earlier this year, and I don't understand why so many reviewers are fawning over it. It's a over Office 2008, and it has issues that show it should still be in beta.Maybe because it's been four years since Microsoft bothered to update Office for Mac (the stunningly unusable Ofice 2011, whose painful memory I long ago buried), and seven years since a serious update (Office 2008), people are grateful of anything. But I think we deserve better. Looking to run office productivity apps on the go?
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When opening, icon can bounce 40 or so times in the dock, taking close. Other Office apps) and looking for the line that reads '16.xx (xxxxxx).
Check out InfoWorld's comparisons of and. Considering the? Take these crucial steps before, during, and after for a successful migration. The good news is that the core of Office 2016 is solid - as it was in Office 2008 and Office 2003 before it. Frankly, Office is a very mature product that doesn't need more features thrown at it, simply refinements and support for modern trends like cloud storage access.It's good that Microsoft is making the Office UI more common across its various versions.
Office 2016 is based on the, which is also the basis for and the released earlier this week. (Office 2016 for Windows desktops is due in September, and the Windows Phone version by 2016.)But as Microsoft typically does on its Mac software, where it doesn't need to. Here are examples of that unfinished quality in Office 2016. The file-access bluesWhen you open the app, there's a new file-browser window that takes you through an extra step to open files stored locally on your Mac or on cloud storage services other than Microsoft's own. It's annoying and unnecessary.Fortunately, once you create a new document or open an existing one, you can access the standard OS X Open dialog boxes using the menu bar (not the Open button above the Office ribbon). But why add that extra step at each app launch? And why is it so slow to open the standard OS X Open dialog box once you click On My Mac?
And why can't the Mac office file browser directly access Dropbox, like the iOS and Android versions can?
We've been on Office 365's exchange hosting for four months now. Recently users began reporting slow load times for a couple of shared calendars. Two of the calendars are resource calendars and one is a user calendar that is shared out.Some machines in the office have this issue and others do not. The first thought was that they were on a different version of outlook-they are up to date and current. The next thought was to recreate the mail profile. When that failed we decided to look at the user accounts themselves as the source of the issue. I am having the issue (as is half of our office) so I had one of the users who is not come over and create a mail profile using their account.
Sure enough, their profile worked fine, but when I switched back to my account it was still loading slowly. This leads us to believe their is something going on at the Datacenter side. Both accounts are cached with the same settings other than e-mail account itself.To put it in perspective, it takes around 5 minutes to load a 20mb shared calendar. My co-worker's mail profile/account could download those same shared folders in about 10 seconds. During my prolonged download Outlook frequently becomes unresponsive. I have a ticket in with tech support but that has been going nowhere for the last 6 days. Anyone else have any relevant experiences? I have disabled graphics acceleration on the machine that my co-worker and I tested with.
This is also occurring on windows 7 and 8.1.I have also taken out a pc with a brand new updated OS, put office and my outlook account on it. Still had the same issue.The machine itself seems to make no difference in whether the problem manifests itself. The e-mail account is the common thread. I can go to any user in the building, generate my own outlook profile and the issue will occur.
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I can tak any user that doesn't have this problem and create a profile on one of the affected computers and it'll work fine. That suggests an exchange problem-I would think. Not ruling out Outlook at this point either.As far as networking is concerned, we have not had any other connection glitches or hiccups. We have a brand new Sonicwall that was configured in January. It also does it when I take my laptop offsite. We have 14 Mbps over bonded T1's so bandwidth shouldn't be the problem for a 20 Mb calendar. Guys, I'm weighing in here, too. I have a user with an issue when using two resource mailbox calendars.
It ONLY happens in the resource calendars. If I turn off cached mode and restart, it is slower but it actually works. If I turn it back on again it behaves very well for about a week and then the problem returns.When she adds an appointment in the calendar, the moment she starts typing in the subject Outlook hangs for a few minutes and then carries on. She also has other users' calendars in view and can add appointments to these without trouble.What is the difference between resource mailboxes and other users' mailboxes in this scenario?
I see there has been some recent activity on this thread. MS actually did resolve our issue after several hours of complaining and a lot of teeth-gnashing over the phone. Ultimately what MS did was to migrate the other half of our organization onto a new platform and make some changes on the backend-something about moving away from conventional RPC protocols-supposed to be a system wide upgrade we were caught in the middle of. It was awhile ago and I don't remember the particulars.We have recently discovered some problems with Malware Bytes not playing nice with exchange connections. Basically Malware bytes is causing a disconnection that goes away when MB is disabled.
Just a little heads up for anyone who stumbles on this thread. I know I'm late to this party, but I've seen this issue before, and it could be caused by a shared mailbox having a lot of data in it. Outlook will play a lot nicer with the caching of mailboxes that have been added as a separate (licensed) user account than those that are shared and contain a lot of mailbox and calendar items.
If it happens in future I would consider temporarily licensing the mailbox (if you have any spare licences), and then re-adding the mailbox to Outlook manually as a separate mail account (rather than adding it via delegated access as a shared mailbox) to see if this resolves the issue. I actually just found something that APPEARS to work.FileAccount SettingsAccount SettingsChange(email tab)More SettingsAdvanced Tabuncheck 'Download shared folders'Thanks, this worked!A user had slow search population as well as slow calendar (not their own) loading.
I had tried simply re-building the search index and also re-adding an already-added calendar, and everything sped up, but the problem returned after 3-4 days. This time, I unchecked 'Download Shared Folders' and both problems were resolved instantly. Judging from the lack of follow-up responses to this post, I'm hoping it lasts.
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