SOLVED Word for Mac problems

[Bayer]

Hi, Friends!
I am using Word for Mac to translate a huge document, but after several hours of work, I am suddenly getting the awful spinning beachball, and it has really slowed down. I'm ready to scream with frustration!!

How easy is it to use Pages and convert the document to Word after it is done? Will I be able to duplicate the formatting and fonts? Has anyone tried doing this? If so, I would really appreciate your input.

Thanks!

 

[TonyAguila]

Hi, Friends!
I am using Word for Mac to translate a huge document, but after several hours of work, I am suddenly getting the awful spinning beachball, and it has really slowed down. I'm ready to scream with frustration!!

How easy is it to use Pages and convert the document to Word after it is done? Will I be able to duplicate the formatting and fonts? Has anyone tried doing this? If so, I would really appreciate your input.

Thanks!

Please let us know the exact model of your Mac—year, model, storage (SSD capacity), amount of RAM, and macOS version. If beach balling is the main issue, chances are you are running out of disk space and free memory. MS Word is not storage and memory hungry, but it will still happen when you are short of one or both due to swapping.

 

[Bayer]

I am using the latest Sequoia 15.5. No problem of disk space or memory. I found a thread that suggested opening Word for Mac from the finder's application folder, instead of the icon of Word in the dock. That seems to have worked. It seems that copy/paste from one language to another causes a problem, also enabling 'mark-up'. Hope it works for anyone else that is facing the same problem.

 

[TonyAguila]

I am using the latest Sequoia 15.5. No problem of disk space or memory. I found a thread that suggested opening Word for Mac from the finder's application folder, instead of the icon of Word in the dock. That seems to have worked. It seems that copy/paste from one language to another causes a problem, also enabling 'mark-up'. Hope it works for anyone else that is facing the same problem.

You may have an extra copy of MS Word hiding elsewhere. First thing to do is to remove the item from the dock (right-click and select Options -> Remove from Dock). Then launch the “good” version of the app and it will automatically be added to the temporary place on the dock. To keep it there for good, right-click on the (new) dock item and choose to Keep in Dock. If you were able to locate the “bad” copy of the app, you must use an app cleaner utility to purge it from your system. If you simply move it to the trash, detritus from it will be left behind to possibly cause trouble, or at the very least use up valuable drive space.

 

[Bayer]

The icon in the dock was just a Microsoft Word alias. Bizarre that one would be problematic and the other not! Will be using the one in the Finder app file in future for long Word documents (more than 100 pages). Do not have a problem with small documents as yet. Thanks for replying!

 

[TonyAguila]

The icon in the dock was just a Microsoft Word alias. Bizarre that one would be problematic and the other not! Will be using the one in the Finder app file in future for long Word documents (more than 100 pages). Do not have a problem with small documents as yet. Thanks for replying!

That’s not exactly the point. Fortunately for me, I hardly use MS Word myself, but I checked its presence on my startup drive and here is what I found:

I don’t normally allow things like this to go unresolved but since I don’t use Word myself, I haven’t gotten to fixing the problem. The majority of the files on the list will indeed launch MS Word, but will not behave in exactly the same way, like in your case. But thanks for bringing it up. Now I know what I will be doing the next time I get around to cleaning house.

Most of the items on the list should launch MS Word themselves, but in various versions. I’m sure the oldest ones will not even run in macOS Tahoe now.