I am finding Publisher 2013 unbelievably slow, so slow as to be unworkable.

Anonymous
2013-03-25T23:19:54+00:00

I have a new laptop and it handles all programs well including Photoshop but Publisher 2013 is extremely slow.  Even highlighting text can take over a second.  Earlier versions of Publisher are fine.  Can anyone suggest a cause and a solution?

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Anonymous
2013-03-25T23:31:57+00:00

Perhaps uncheck the "use Office to sync files faster..." setting in SkyDrive.

Reference: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_home-office_install/microsoft-office-document-cache-sync-client/6b011698-e0d8-4cc0-b3c2-674ba2565fc3?page=1

DavidF

[Edit] After posting the above, I ran across another possible fix:

In Publisher go to File > Options > Advanced and check 'disable hardware graphics acceleration'.

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Anonymous
2013-05-16T13:29:34+00:00

I also had this problem.  I didn't when I first installed Publisher, but after about a week it became so slow it was driving me crazy!  I tried all the options that were listed in this forum, and none of them helped.  I finally just ended up uninstalling Microsoft Skydrive all together - I wasn't using it anyway - and bam!  Problem fixed! Publisher now runs great!

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Anonymous
2013-05-03T18:43:53+00:00

I was struggling with the same slow unusable situation with Publisher 2013.    I dropped back to Publisher 2010.  I do not have the time nor would I expect to fuss around trying all these patches/delete patches/updates.

........editing earlier post.

I have pretty good efficiency editing a 68.9MB pub doc in Pub2010 but it was too big to save as jpg or pdf or anything other than .pub.   Switching back to 2013 I was able to create a  9.7MB pdf but still could not export a jpg.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-05-06T19:28:48+00:00

    Sorry for not being clear.  I have used the tool to compress all the pictures in the document and this has not solved the problem.  I assume this is the way to do this? Is there another tool for doing this other than clicking on each picture?  And also I apparently did not make clear the level of frustration I am experiencing as the deadline for this publication fast approaches and it takes minutes just to move a text box...thus the venting as an attempt to make the MS folks understand that this needs to be fixed.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-05-06T18:59:47+00:00

    I originated this report a couple of years ago shortly after Publisher 2013 first came out. I tried many of the suggested tweaks but they didn't seem to make any difference! Then one day I discovered it was working properly, but I don't know why! I can do load large images successfully and manipulate them as I want.  I certainly don't need to resize the images although I do agree that they can normally be reduced to 300 dpi which out problems with the quality of the finished item.

    Sorry that this doesn't help you solve your problem, but it might be of some interest.

    John

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