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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?
A desktop publishing application from Microsoft that focuses on page layout and graphic design.
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Perhaps uncheck the "use Office to sync files faster..." setting in SkyDrive.
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'.
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!
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.
Ann,
Your experience, assertions and assumptions are correct. I've tried every suggestion on this thread and a few other complex solutions that required many changes to operating system settings. None of the solutions made any difference. Sadly this appears to be another Microsoft fail. Hopefully you'll find a solution that works for you.
I truly appreciate your lengthy reply and obvious acknowledgement of my extreme frustration...that having been said it happens that I have been working on two files at the same time. One is 116mb that is mostly high res photos, with other jpegs being ads that have been converted from publisher, plus standard text boxes. That file actually worked well enough to finish after making some of the fixes I found in the thread. The one that I am currently trying to finish consists of very few actual photos, but jpegs of ads converted from publisher or copied from a pdf; additionally it has many pages that were created inside the publication using standard publisher graphics, word art & text boxes. None of the fixes have made any difference whatsoever. I am now creating ads, etc. in another publisher file, saving and changing to a jpeg, and then inserting into the publication. That way I can least accomplish the creation of the graphics. Then it takes interminable time to move them into position after inserting into the publication. I will try hiding the pictures when I bring in a new one for placement and see if that makes a difference.
Perhaps you are correct that some change has occurred since the thread is indeed an old one...however I just downloaded this version of Office Pro a couple of months ago. I would have expected that my version would have come with some of the bugs worked out. But perhaps those people just gave up and moved back to a previous version (as some have said they did) or moved on to another program. I do this kind of very large file only about once a year, and as a volunteer...certainly I am not able to afford (nor do I realistically need) some expensive graphics program.
Thanks again for taking the time to help with this...I will continue to muddle through to finish. But I can say with much certainty I will search out something else before I start this project next year.