Is there anything more frustrating than typing lag or slow-loading documents when you’re on a deadline? While Microsoft Office is one of the most widely used application suites for all kinds of projects in the modern office, it doesn't always show excellent performance.

When Microsoft Office slows down, showing you spinning wheels and requiring long wait times, it breaks your flow and concentration, ultimately affecting your productivity.

Thankfully, there are a few proven ways to speed up Microsoft Office on your Mac, and most of them are as simple as tidying up. If Marie Kondo has taught us anything, it’s that clutter can cause unnecessary stress in life. And this applies to hard drives as well!

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Why is Microsoft Office slow?

While there are a few different symptoms indicating that Microsoft Office isn’t doing its best, such as a painfully slow opening of a program or Microsoft Word slow typing, the question stands: why is Microsoft Word so slow?

There are a variety of reasons Microsoft Office may run slowly, freeze, or cause the much dreaded typing lag. Often, the issue stems from a build-up of corrupted or temporary files that are meant to be automatically deleted but, for whatever reason, have failed to do so. The application suite could also be out of date or attempt to load corrupted files. Very likely it’s just a large number of small problems that have snowballed and are now causing noticeable issues. Here’s how you can fix it.

Refresh go-to templates

The template file normal.dot is created by Microsoft Word and stored automatically on your computer. It saves all the default settings of the application. So each time you change your settings, the preference is added to normal.dot. This way, the next time Microsoft Word opens a new document, your preferred settings load automatically. If your normal.dot file becomes corrupted or too complex to load, it can make Microsoft Word slow.

Deleting the existing normal.dot file will force Microsoft Word to create a new one. Starting fresh will be easy for most users, as the majority of us don’t stray too far from the default settings. For those that change their default settings in complex ways, make sure you back up your normal.dot files to a flash drive to avoid losing important settings permanently.

To find and delete normal.dot manually:

1. Quit MS Word and open Finder.
2. Type normal.dot into the search field.
3. Wait for all results to load. It’s not uncommon to have more than one normal.dot file. They may also appear as normal.dotm.
4. Select all normal.dot and normal.dotm files and delete them.
5. Empty your Trash.

Finally, reload the application and see if the process has managed to speed up Microsoft Word.

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Delete temporary files

All Microsoft Office programs will create temporary files to prevent you from losing your work. However, if the automatic removal of these files fails, they can build up and make Microsoft Office slow.

You can easily seek out and remove these files:

1. Determine which temporary files you want to delete. Microsoft’s website lists different types of temporary files that Microsoft Office produces automatically. Likely the files you are looking for will be searchable using the trine sign ~*.doc, ~*.dot or ~*.tmp.
2. Use Finder to search for files with ~*.doc or another marker.
3. Select files to delete.
4. Drag them to the Trash and empty it.

Once you are done, reload the application to see if that did speed up Microsoft Word.

Keep Microsoft Office updated

Having an outdated version of Microsoft Office will eventually cause it to run slowly. Luckily, updating the suite is very easy:

1. Open Microsoft Word.
2. In the top tool-bar, select Help and click “Check for Updates.”
3. Install the update if detected.

Additionally, you can turn on Microsoft auto-updates using the same dialogue box, so that whenever Microsoft Office detects a new version it will offer you an opportunity to install it.

Another way to update Microsoft Office is to directly download the latest one from the Microsoft website. But before you do, check that it’s fully compatible with your version of macOS.

Reset the application to default settings

Over time, all Mac apps accumulate lots of unneeded preferences that constantly rewrite each other. A good way to rule out that there’s anything wrong with the app is to do a factory reset — bring the app back to the state when it was brand new.

You can do a factory reset in two ways:

1. Go to Finder and search for ~/Library
2. Look for Microsoft Office files in the results
3. Delete all of them but the app itself

Alternatively, you can do the same thing quicker and more thoroughly with the CleanMyMac X uninstaller utility:

1. Download CleanMyMac X with a free trial.
2. Go to Uninstaller tab.
3. Select Microsoft Office and choose Reset.
4. Click on the Reset button.

Delete and reinstall Microsoft Office

The old IT adage “have you tried turning it off and back on?” applies here, but in this case, it’s about deleting the application and reinstalling it. To completely delete Microsoft Office, you will need to remove files from two different places on your computer: delete the app first and then find your Library folder in Finder to see the associated files that need to be removed.

1. Head to the Applications folder and move Microsoft Office to the Trash
2. Find your Library folder in Finder by navigating to your computer in Locations and then clicking on your hard-drive (e.g. Macintosh HD)
3. Open System then Library, and find the folder Containers
4. From Containers, move the following associated files to the Trash:
   • com.microsoft.errorreporting
   • com.microsoft.Excel
   • com.microsoft.netlib.shipassertprocess
   • com.microsoft.Office365ServiceV2
   • com.microsoft.Outlook
   • com.microsoft.Powerpoint
   • com.microsoft.RMS-XPCService
   • com.microsoft.Word
   • com.microsoft.onenote.mac
     
5. Open Group Containers folder as well and remove the following files:
   • UBF8T346G9.ms
     
   • UBF8T346G9.Office
   • UBF8T346G9.OfficeOsfWebHost
     
6. Finally, remove Microsoft Office from the Dock and restart your Mac.

Once removed, head back to the Microsoft website, sign in to your account, and install the latest version.

Optimize documents for storage

Keeping Microsoft Office functioning properly means saving documents in their most optimized state. Resizing large images or graphics and not overloading your files with macros will help you maintain speedy performance in the long run.

Speed up Microsoft Office automatically in minutes

While all the above maintenance will help you speed up Microsoft Office, it can be time-consuming and finicky. Troubleshooting your app version, deleting and refreshing templates, and searching for temporary files is all manual work and could eat up a few hours.

To make things easy, you can use optimization software like CleanMyMac X, which will automatically detect and remove temporary as well as unused files to get your Microsoft Office running smoothly. Here’s how to do it:

1. Download CleanMyMac X.
2. Drag it into your Applications folder.
3. Open it and run a general Smart Scan to start.
4. Then run Optimization and Maintenance scans (which you can choose from the left-side panel) to target specific areas, such as freeing up RAM and reviewing your login items
5. Repeat the process every month or so.

While following the above method of optimizing your Mac with CleanMyMac X is enough to remove any unnecessary clutter, the app’s sidebar menu offers even more options for increasing the speed of your Mac as well as a handy uninstaller for quick and thorough uninstallations of apps you don’t need anymore.

Ultimately, there are a number of ways to get Microsoft Office to run smoothly again. And although it’s entirely possible to do most of the cleanup manually, using an app like CleanMyMac X is a much faster and easier way to get rid of junk and ensure that your Mac is performing at top speed.

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When you're using a Web browser, reading your email or working on a company project in an application, you want to view the window that contains your files at full-screen size to show as much as possible without scrolling. Sometimes, however, you want to move an application window out of your way without switching to the Finder or another application. When you minimize a full-screen window, it vanishes and places an icon in the Dock to the right of the divider that separates applications from documents. Neither the application in which you're working nor the window that contains your work quits or closes.

Press 'Cmd-M' or click on the yellow radio button at the top left corner of your document window. It appears between a red button, which closes the window, and a green button, which maximizes the window to full-screen size. The document window disappears into the Dock. Note that if you've set your Appearance preferences to the Graphite color scheme, all three of these buttons appear in silvery gray; select the center button to minimize the window.

Open the Dock if it is hidden by moving your cursor to the edge of the screen from which it appears. By default, the Dock pops up from the bottom of your monitor, but you can set its preferences so it hides and shows itself from the left or right edge or so it remains open all the time.

Click on the icon for your minimized document. The window returns to its full-screen size.

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Tips

• Hold down the 'Shift' key while you click on a document's minimize button or the Dock icon for a minimized document. The window vanishes and appears in animated slow motion.
• Open the Apple menu; choose the 'Dock' fly-out menu and select 'Dock Preferences' to access the Dock pane within your System Preferences. Set the 'Minimize Using' drop-down menu to 'Scale Effect' to make your application and Finder windows reduce in size as they vanish. Choose 'Genie Effect' to make windows swoop out of sight when you minimize them.
• Use the Mission Control key -- the F3 key -- in the top row of your keyboard to show all the windows, minimized or not, from all your currently running applications. Click on one of the windows to make it visible. Use the F9 key on keyboards with no dedicated Mission Control key.
• If you'd prefer to minimize a window by double-clicking on its title bar, open your System Preferences, click on the 'General' icon in the Personal row and activate the check box in front of the item for minimizing when double-clicking a title bar.

Resources (1)

• Mac OS X Lion: The Missing Manual; David Pogue

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