Bob Johnson Wrote:
We are having a problem with my daughters Powerbook G3. Purchased
new on 6-25-99
I have the exact same thing you have--a Lombard with 192 meg
running Office 98. It originally came with OS 8.5 and you should at
least be running 8.6, but I presume you are running OS9.1. There is
no problem with speed and you don't need more RAM. HOWEVER, in my
experience, one must always use virtual memory with all Microsoft
products of that era. This has nothing to do with the amount of
RAM, it apparently has to do with the way Microsoft prefers the
virtual-memory memory-manager. So set the VM to 193 (or 250,
whatever).
HP is notorious for not updating their drivers. (the
consequences of this are worse in the Windows world), but check out
their web page anyway for drivers. I have found that everything
works much better in OS 9.1 than in 8.x, but I don't have your
printer. As noted by others, defragging an overloaded drive doesn't
help as much as dumping files, although if you are using the computer
primarily for Office '98, you shouldn't be even close to filling 5
out of 6 Gigs.
You might try printing pages wit, say, 1 letter in Times font
or forcing Black & White in the driver, to see if certain settings
are causing a problem, but only use brand-new documents from scratch.
Try setting the print driver to the fastest and coarsest setting.
(Question: Does the printer take 14 minutes to start printing? or
does it start immediately and go really slow from there?)
Try starting documents that are brand new. MSWord can create
haunted documents that mess up your system. These documents are the
suck-egg dogs of your computer and must be destroyed. If you are
using bad documents for templates this can make MSWord worthless.
(These documents may have one invisible character somewhere that is
causing the print driver to spend 14 minutes and 59 seconds to print
nothing and the last second to print your document.
The same is true of your MSWord preference files. You may
have haunted preferences and styles, etc. Even if you delete the
specific header, footer, template or preference that was causing the
problem the Haunting will refuse to die and in my experience the only
thing to do is delete everything related to MSWord (except your old
docs) and reconstruct them from scratch. This is based upon my
experience using Word for 16 years. I recall having to do this with
Word 98 on my Secretary's Cube within the last 2 years.
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