Publisher 2016 running VERY SLOW

2015-12-22

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_{Tuesday, December 22, 2015 10:19 PM | 8 votes}

I got a new laptop. We have a MS 365 subscription and so I installed MS Office 2016 (32 bit). Publisher is running painfully slow. Crazy that a new computer and more "up to date" piece of software are 10 times slower than my old computer and the old version of the software...

When I click on images and try to move them with a mouse or the cursors there is a significant lag time. I have isolated the problem to having something to do with the way it is loading/using the images. When I hide the images it is easy to move things around. When they are not hidden, the whole program is painfully slow, especially anything that has to do with the images. I have already compressed all the images. I have also checked the option which says "use legacy drag preview" and "disable hardware graphics acceleration" based on similar problems I found people posting about with the 2013 version. So far, no luck... I am hoping there is some magic solution which will help me speed up the image processing without having to hide the images each time.

I even just pulled 2 images from the document I was working in and pasted them in a brand new document. And the problem still occurred.

Thanks for any help you can offer...

-Kevin

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_{Wednesday, December 23, 2015 3:14 AM}

Hi,

I suggest you start Publisher in safe mode, then open the files, check if the problem persists:

Press Win + R, type "mspub /safe" in the Run window, press Enter.

In some cases Publisher is slow because there are some 3rd-party add-ins interfering with Publisher. If there is no such issue in safe mode, please disable the suspicious add-ins to verify which one caused the problem.

Please also make sure your Office version is up-to-date, I'm not seeing this problem on my Publisher 2016(16.0.6001.1043).

Regards,

Melon Chen
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_{Tuesday, January 5, 2016 9:52 PM | 1 vote}

I have exactly the same experience.

New machine less than two weeks old (HP Pavilion) MS office 365, printer drivers and anti-virus (MacAfee) really the only software running.

"use legacy drag preview" and "disable hardware graphics acceleration" have been selected and makes very little difference.

Previous system was a now five year old Toshiba Satellite running Windows 7 SP 1 and Ms Office Professional 2010 and drag of images is fast, smooth and accurate.

Current system is Windows 10 and MS office 365 (Publisher version 16.0.6366.2036) with all available updates installed.

Any suggestions or pointers gratefully received.

John Barton (jbstirling)

_{Wednesday, January 6, 2016 6:59 AM}

I have exactly the same experience.

New machine less than two weeks old (HP Pavilion) MS office 365, printer drivers and anti-virus (MacAfee) really the only software running.

"use legacy drag preview" and "disable hardware graphics acceleration" have been selected and makes very little difference.

Previous system was a now five year old Toshiba Satellite running Windows 7 SP 1 and Ms Office Professional 2010 and drag of images is fast, smooth and accurate.

Current system is Windows 10 and MS office 365 (Publisher version 16.0.6366.2036) with all available updates installed.

Any suggestions or pointers gratefully received.

John Barton (jbstirling)

Have you tried my suggestion to work in safe mode?

By the way I suggest you open a new thread if there is any issue using the product.

Regards,

Melon Chen
TechNet Community Support

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_{Thursday, January 7, 2016 9:30 PM | 1 vote}

Thanks Melon

Yes I have tried running in safe mode and this makes now difference.

I thought this was a thread regarding Publisher 2016 and its performance.

If not how do I start a new thread please?

_{Friday, January 8, 2016 12:33 PM | 2 votes}

This must be a Publisher or Windows issue. I have the latest version of Microsoft Publisher 2016 and Windows 10, both with all available updates running on 3 different computers. We are having the exact same problem on all three computers and only with Publisher. The other Office365 products are working just fine.

I have tried running in safe mode as well and it makes no difference at all.

_{Monday, January 18, 2016 4:29 PM | 1 vote}

We have the same issue. Painfully slow to use. We completely reinstalled office. Got ever update we could . Spent 2 hours on the phone with Microsoft tech support which was useless. They said it was our problem. We are using two computers both now have same issue. It is only an issue with publisher. We use Lightroom and Photoshop, both work perfect. Word also works fine. I also reduced all the sizes of the images that I use in my document.

_{Monday, January 18, 2016 6:23 PM | 1 vote}

We have the same issue. Painfully slow to use. We completely reinstalled office. Got ever update we could . Spent 2 hours on the phone with Microsoft tech support which was useless. They said it was our problem. We are using two computers both now have same issue. It is only an issue with publisher. We use Lightroom and Photoshop, both work perfect. Word also works fine. I also reduced all the sizes of the images that I use in my document.

I am having trouble with this as well. Older less powerful machine ran an older version of Publisher fine. This PC runs Photoshop and InDesign without a hiccup, but Publisher lags like crazy. I can't work productively like this. Safe mode makes no difference. What is the solution??

Thanks!

_{Saturday, January 23, 2016 5:04 PM | 1 vote}

I am having the same problem. In my case, I have an older computer. I updated to Windows 10. Publisher worked fine. After an update, it all of a sudden started being super slow. This is obviously a Microsoft problem. I sure hope they fix it soon!

_{Monday, January 25, 2016 5:27 PM}

Same here. I am really p...ss...d. I had a good working copy of Publisher 2013 and after installing 2016 Publisher is so slow that I is impossible to work with it.

So I pay 'subscription' for a Software that used to work and now I have something that is as slow as mollasse. Anyway I do not understand what is 2016 about this publisher. The only new feature is that it is unusable for me...

I would be happy to see a fast fix, but people are complaining since December 2015 or earlier about this problem.

_{Tuesday, February 2, 2016 9:56 PM | 2 votes}

Same here. Tried the repair suggestion. Both of them. Tried the safe mode thing. Nothing. Still lagging. The previous version of publisher was ok. 2016 sucks. Sort it out, Microsoft. You took my money, now give me what I've paid for.

_{Wednesday, February 3, 2016 4:06 AM | 1 vote}

I have the same problem on 4 computers. My old desktop and laptop... and 2 brand new laptops with blazing fast processors and lots of memory. One computer is running Office 365, the other 3 are running Office 2016. On all 4 of these computers Publisher 2016 is UNUSABLE. Images are impossible to re-position. They move slowly. You can't see exactly where they are going to land. All of this is new since i upgraded to Office 2016 and Office 365. Publisher 2010 does not have this problem on ANY of these computers.

All these computers are running Windows 7 professional.

All of these computers run Publisher 2010 flawlessly. In fact, I've gone back to using Publisher 2010 because I literally cannot use Publisher 2016! How the heck is this possible? Upgrade as MSFT wants us to do... and then be completely unable to work?

This can't be 'our' problem. Something is wrong with this software! Please help us Microsoft!

_{Wednesday, February 3, 2016 1:02 PM}

Also having this problem. It's stopping me from working productively. I'm not happy to be paying for a product that clearly has a problem that Microsoft is not acknowledging or repairing.

_{Tuesday, February 23, 2016 4:35 AM}

Hi there

I tried searching online for a solution and stumbled upon this thread. I can confirm running on win10 x64 recently updated office 2010 to office 2016, only Publisher 2016 x32 seems to be running into massive lag.

I have to use a diff pc to actually get any work done on publisher. Its a shame QC was lacking before launching this to the public.

_{Tuesday, March 8, 2016 4:18 PM}

Having same issue. Anyone get a workaround? We are resorting to use Publisher 2010 as performance seems OK with that.

_{Saturday, March 12, 2016 4:43 AM}

Same problem here! This thread was started back in January and here we are in March and still no answer. Has anyone figured out a solution other than going back to Publisher 2013 or 2010?

_{Saturday, March 12, 2016 9:50 PM}

Same problem here! This thread was started back in January and here we are in March and still no answer. Has anyone figured out a solution other than going back to Publisher 2013 or 2010?

Ugh. this is super frustrating. Something that used to take me 30 minutes now takes me an hour. I cannot work - it is completely insane that there is no resolve from Microsoft regarding Publisher's issues. I have an old XP (YES, that's right, XP pc with Publisher 2010, and it is running like a dream. Problem is, i wont have access to it for much longer, plus it is not on my network. Can anybody please help?

_{Saturday, March 12, 2016 10:30 PM | 3 votes}

I think i found a temporary workaround - it would be fantastic if anyone out there could test it as well?

What I did was open a flyer I've been working on. The graphics kept on lagging, and i was about to give up. Before I did, however, I went to File - Print; just to see if all the outlines will print. I found a line wrong, and went back to fix it - lo and behold, my graphics worked faster, and moved smoother.

I went ahead and tried this in the next design by only adding an image, doing the print preview (under file - print) and then went back and did my whole label design without lag.

I really hope this small, silly thing helps someone out there - it must be an evil microsoft publisher gremlin :)

_{Saturday, March 12, 2016 10:32 PM | 2 votes}

I think i found a temporary workaround - it would be fantastic if anyone out there could test it as well?

I went ahead and tried this in the next design by only adding an image, doing the print preview (under file - print) and then went back and did my whole label design without lag.

I really hope this small, silly thing helps someone out there - it must be an evil microsoft publisher gremlin :)

_{Monday, March 14, 2016 2:00 PM}

Rats. That didn't work for me. This is SO frustrating.... I've noticed the performance getting slower and slower with every office/windows update. I love how quickly I can get things done in publisher, but it may be time to jump ship to something else. Suggestions for alternatives??

_{Tuesday, March 15, 2016 5:11 PM}

Same issue on a Window 8.1 Pro machine after upgrading to Office 2016. This is not a O365 version, but one of the stand alone versions as well. Every other Office Suite Product is working just fine. Just Publisher 2016 seems to be the victim here. Again, Photoshop, Adobe, etc. all work like a champ. My wife is asking to go back to Publisher 2013 which I'm close to doing unless there is something in the works about this. Anyone have any "official" word from MSFT on this? There seems to be months of chatter about it on the web and many community threads about this. SP1? Rollup Fix? Anything at all that we can see if it repairs this.

For those that live in Publisher as editors, this is pretty difficult to continue to use the newest product.

Edward

_{Wednesday, March 16, 2016 4:23 PM}

Same Problem Here

Desktop high end here . All impressive fast , ssd ecc...

Just Installed WIN10 , all works fine.

But Publisher 2016 is VERY VERY SLOW .

working with pics is frutrating. In safe mode nothing changes

Thanks for any help you could offer

Federico

_{Thursday, March 17, 2016 4:43 PM}

This does not work. Has a solution been proposed. I just fixed the Outlook bug with the update, kept getting the same emails over and over.

Now this!? Does MS have a solution for this problem? Booted in safe mode, no difference. Im working on a Surface Pro 3 and I can run all other memory intensive programs with no issue at all. Publisher acts like I have 30 programs open and lags horrible just scrolling around. This is so frustrating.

_{Monday, March 21, 2016 3:46 AM | 1 vote}

Checking on "Disable hardware graphics acceleration" fixed this issue for me. It can be found under Options>Advanced>Display.

Found this tip at http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_365hp-publish/i-am-finding-publisher-2013-unbelievably-slow-so/20caa516-a726-4aec-9fd9-996904eed45f?auth=1

You may try other methods mentioned in that thread it disabling hardware graphics acceleration doesn't work.

_{Thursday, March 31, 2016 2:03 AM}

I'm still having the same issues. Has this been fixed yet???

_{Tuesday, May 10, 2016 12:22 AM}

THANK YOU!!! I have been beyond frustrated for months and just found your solution and it worked. You saved me. Thanks again!

_{Thursday, May 19, 2016 6:45 PM | 2 votes}

Checking off Use Legacy Drag Mode worked too.

_{Friday, May 20, 2016 4:07 AM | 1 vote}

I checked "Use Legacy Drag Mode" under Options... Advance and it seems to work now. I don't see pics when i'm moving but it moves with an outline and that' better than how sluggish it was.

_{Sunday, June 5, 2016 1:42 AM | 1 vote}

I just went in and clicked enable Legacy drag mode and the images are moving smoothly, fingers crossed this continues to work seeing Microsoft are doing nothing. thank you.

_{Saturday, June 18, 2016 12:44 PM | 1 vote}

I just went in and clicked enable Legacy drag mode and the images are moving smoothly, fingers crossed this continues to work seeing Microsoft are doing nothing. thank you.

Yes this worked for me too! Thank you for the tip. I might not throw my new computer out of the window after all :)

People, this is where you will find it:

Go into File, Options, Advanced and then click "Enable legacy drag mode".

Hope it works for you too

_{Sunday, June 19, 2016 3:10 AM}

I work for a small newspaper designing Ads. Glad the lag issue is fixed now but i'm having horrible problems when a boarder is added will not let me access anything in the ad text boxes or pics bring forward or back doesn't help have to remove boarder off ad to work on it. This is very very frustrating if we cannot solve this problem will have to change to different program Serif perhaps. Would love any suggestion that may help.

_{Wednesday, June 22, 2016 6:16 PM}

I have the same problem. I publish our Parish Mag and have had Windows 10 and Office 365 for the past couple of months. No problems until today and suddenly dreadful time lag. It's driving me mad. I've put the ticks in Legacy and Disable Hardware Graphics but not made any difference.

_{Wednesday, June 22, 2016 7:46 PM}

We have just reinstalled Office 365. Now Publisher is working. What is very strange is that it looks like Publisher 2013! I can't see the pages down the left hand side and all the menus have reverted back to the old ones.

On the one hand, great because I can now get on with the publication but on the other I really liked the new format and was just getting used to it. I can't understand why this has happened.

_{Wednesday, June 22, 2016 7:48 PM}

Try reinstalling the program - it worked for me, although I now have Publisher 3013 back not 2016!! Don't understand why as we have office 365 that we only bought a couple of months ago. Very strange.

_{Sunday, June 26, 2016 3:30 PM}

Hi, I'm new to the forum so please bare with me if this has been dealt with elsewhere.

I had the same issues with Publisher running slowly and graphics being almost impossible to move and the Legacy Drag advice fixed this (thank you) but now I have another issue in that Publisher won't print and just locks up as soon as the print icon is clicked. Has anyone encountered this and found a solution or should I start a new thread?

_{Tuesday, July 5, 2016 2:45 AM | 1 vote}

This might sound stupid but I've been googling myself stupid trying to find a fix.....I finally managed to get it running at normal speed today. Whenever I add a photo into a publisher document, the old picture jumps out and they just accumulate out the side of the document. Today I have deleted all of those old picture and its running like its supposed to!

_{Monday, July 11, 2016 4:30 AM}

yes, it does go incredibly faster by following your advice, ty.

_{Tuesday, July 12, 2016 4:22 PM}

This is what worked for me! Thank you so much. I was very frustrated. Spent half a day yesterday trying to find a way to fix this problem. Tried all the suggestions from Microsoft, and nothing worked. I am amazed that something so simple as deleting old graphics on clipboard would fix the problem. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

_{Wednesday, July 20, 2016 3:34 AM}

I can't believe this thread has been going so long and Microsoft still haven't fixed the problem! I am a subscriber to Office365 and it is so frustrating! I am a publisher and can't work like this!

_{Friday, July 29, 2016 2:58 AM}

I experienced this with the most updated version of Publisher 2016 running on Win 10. It was, however, only while using one text box. I deleted that text box and replaced it with a new one - problem solved ... so far.

Don't bother with Microsoft's "help" [sic] desk. You're better off smashing your head with a hammer.

_{Friday, July 29, 2016 5:11 AM}

I'm at last resort to post here but I'm literally ready to completely abandon MS Publisher even after having >1000 lines of VB code written to assist my efforts. I had this same slow problem with Pub2013 & just today jumped to 2016 in hopes the problem was fixed. Its worse, way worse. Whatever the problem, I suspect it came with Pub2013 & came along for the ride in Pub2016. There is a similar thread of this same thing for Pub2013 suggesting in Advanced Options to "Use legacy drag preview" and "Disable hardware graphics acceleration". Maybe that works for some but I suspect not for most (tried those & safe-mode & no help for me). SOMETHING IS BROKE IN PUB2013 & PUB2016.

I'm now regretting to make the jump to Pub2016 as it is seems far worse than Pub2013 to the point where if not fixed I have no choice but to abandon this app altogether. I'm doing disc golf course maps with this (JPG backgrounds & maybe several hundred objects) and its sad to say I simply cannot continue like this. I'm very tech savvy & completely at my wits end now. So much "not responding" after openig the PUB-file and before even trying to do anything its sickening.

Microsoft: You need to get on this or simply end this program. I expect its something simple, maybe a problem using objects or data created in previous versions (I have objects created in Pub2003). Maybe with objects outside the page boundaries (I have template objects placed there). Regardless, your techies should be able to conquer this in no time. I'd be more than happy to provide example of a PUB-file to check.

_{Friday, July 29, 2016 2:09 PM}

To add to my post above: I find the highest likelihood that the problem exists in something that changed in the Redraw (or screen/view refresh) starting with Pub2013. Its far worse in Pub2016 now. I opened a PUB-file about 10min ago as as I write this & still awaiting a simple right-click on object to zoom-in to 400% (doubt this detail matters) & its still in/out of not responding. At this point, I'm dead-in-the-water with Pub2016 and Pub2013. Please Microsoft, get on this. I'll happily email you a copy of the file here (you guys have my email from the login).

_{Friday, July 29, 2016 2:29 PM}

Was still awaiting that zoom in previous post but finally gave up after about 15min then closed that PUB-file, made a copy, removed ALL pictures within the copy. That helped in getting Pub2016 to be a bit more responsive. However, a problem with pics is a major problem or "show stopper" with Pub2016 for me & I assume many. Moving objects with the pics removed does give better result in showing the object outline when dragging but there still exists noticeable lag. My laptop is Win10, core-i7, 8Gb DRAM, hybrid HD, & reasonably high-end graphics card (as in this should not be an issue). Hoping this gives you guys some help Microsoft.

_{Saturday, July 30, 2016 10:44 AM}

Same Problem here, Publisher 2016 is unusable!

I tried copying alle the contant including Images and forms etc to PowerPoint and voila, everything moves fast and without stuttering.

Please MS fix this!

_{Wednesday, September 14, 2016 7:35 PM}

THIS SOLVED IT FOR ME:

FILE/OPTIONS/ADVANCED/DISPLAY

UNCHECK (disable) both of the following:

1. LEGACY DRAG PREVIEW

2. DISABLE HARDWARE GRAPHICS ACCELERATOR

_{Friday, September 16, 2016 5:23 AM}

This actually did improve the slack performance of Publisher 2016 to almost useable

_{Friday, September 16, 2016 5:28 AM}

I work for a small newspaper designing Ads. Glad the lag issue is fixed now but i'm having horrible problems when a boarder is added will not let me access anything in the ad text boxes or pics bring forward or back doesn't help have to remove boarder off ad to work on it. This is very very frustrating if we cannot solve this problem will have to change to different program Serif perhaps. Would love any suggestion that may help.

Unfortunately you should be using Adobe Indesign for Newspaper, yes I know it costs an arm and a leg but it works correctly and makes files in CMYK unlike Publisher

Used to run Newspaper production design and pre-press teams

_{Saturday, September 24, 2016 2:37 PM}

I opened Publisher in safe mode and still there is a significant lag time. What is your next suggestion?

_{Monday, December 12, 2016 10:18 PM}

Hi,

I got the same issue for the drag and drop lag. for me the problems was resolved by cheking the option:

in english something like : Use the content preview from drang and drop

Anyone can test this?

_{Saturday, December 17, 2016 6:54 PM}

Try to repair Publisher 2016 following the steps in this article first: Repair an Office application.

_{Tuesday, December 20, 2016 8:04 PM}

I opened Publisher in safe mode and still there is a significant lag time. What is your next suggestion?

I've been struggling with this for a year and FINALLY solved it today. "For me", I had a business card sized footer on the bottom of my template document. The footer contained a very large PNG graphic (I'm guessing 3000x750 pixels). I replaced that graphic with a 600x150 PNG and BAM! Fixed. Like 100% fixed. In fact it's freaky using Publisher now because there's "0" lag LOL. It's possible that some users experience the same problem for different reasons but for me, it was a simple case of an image using a large amount of Publisher's cache. Hope that helps?

_{Tuesday, December 27, 2016 5:04 AM}

Same issue extreme lag when trying to resize or drag and drop items or rendering a print preview or getting all items on page to load correctly every time there are bugs out the A$% that need addressed here....

Microsoft when are you going to listen to your paying subscribes and address this bug its making work almost impossible on a brand new core i7 4790k 4.0GHz Quad-Core an AMD RX480 8GB graphics card with 16gb of ram!!!! There is no excuse for this on a brand new machine with a legal copy of windows 10 pro, Paid office 365 subscription, all updates and beastly hardware that should obliterate desktop publishing. You called my Core i5 Surface pro 3 too slow and now my desktop can't run this crap either? I suggest your team gets on this issue ASAP or I'm switching to ADOBE InDesign and google docs and recommending my friends that are also having this problem do the same no point in paying for software from a SOFTWARE company that doesn't do its job at making it's software work well for paying subscribers..........

_{Thursday, December 29, 2016 4:11 PM}

This worked for me! I just clicked "design checker" and voila! no more lag. Thanks!

_{Thursday, December 29, 2016 4:13 PM}

Click File then select "Design Checker."

_{Thursday, December 29, 2016 4:16 PM}

I took Surfinlakkie's advice and it worked! Choose the "File" tab from the top ribbon then select the "Design Checker" button form the graphics area. No more lag after that!

_{Saturday, December 31, 2016 8:34 PM}

I am having exactly the same problem as all the others above. I tried what you suggested, but it did not help.

_{Thursday, January 26, 2017 4:38 AM}

This work around worked for me too! thank you so much, I hope Microsoft get this sorted ASAP and release an updated version.

Thanks again.

_{Wednesday, February 8, 2017 8:51 AM}

All you need to do is "compress" photos and the fix is complete, do this each time you add photos and the problem will not come back.

_{Tuesday, February 28, 2017 9:28 PM}

Thank you!! I have tried every fix above and FINALLY found the compress photos top to work. I seriously can't thank you enough.

_{Thursday, March 9, 2017 1:34 AM}

I had the same performance problems from the first high resolution image, as well as after the conversion of a MS-Word document. I know the standard Office image compression already since a long time from MS-Word and MS-PowerPoint. Of cause with that MS Publisher runs smoothly. But I cannot use it for later high resolution prints.

If no high-quality pages can be created with reasonable effort, why do I need even otherwise very weak product? Just to circumvent the generally stupid section and paragraph orientation of MS Word? Most other text systems 40 years ago offered an easier way to design pages than Microsoft now! Sure, also a racehorse can no longer raise a certain file size. But a professional software - which MS Publisher isn't - offers a solution to fit memory minimized views until replaced by separately dropped originals for printing.

Also, this thread very clearly shows how little the MS service knows its own Software.

Nevertheless Mircosoft is standard independend of our requirements.

_{Wednesday, April 12, 2017 4:42 PM}

thanks - i also just checked the disable hardware while i was there!! whew finally i can work too!

_{Monday, April 17, 2017 10:58 PM}

This worked for me! I also used "Check Legacy drag preview" Thank goodness I can now use Publisher again. Blanche Crowder

_{Sunday, April 30, 2017 3:53 AM}

Checking on "Disable hardware graphics acceleration" fixed this issue for me. It can be found under Options>Advanced>Display.

Found this tip at http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_365hp-publish/i-am-finding-publisher-2013-unbelievably-slow-so/20caa516-a726-4aec-9fd9-996904eed45f?auth=1

You may try other methods mentioned in that thread it disabling hardware graphics acceleration doesn't work.

TY!

brand new laptop. Top specs... Same issues as everyone here for Pub 2016.

Went to File>Options>Advanced>Display

Checked the box "Use legacy preview". That took care of the lagging.

If you also check the box "Disable hardware graphics acceleration" it helps a fraction more.

However, when you drag the picture, it will not display the picture... Not happy...

Overall very disappointed.

I have Office Pro. Have been using Word without an issue (although some of the new additions are frustratingly in the way). Just touched Publisher. Hope the other apps don't have issues (Excel, PPT....

_{Sunday, April 30, 2017 3:55 AM}

THIS SOLVED IT FOR ME:

FILE/OPTIONS/ADVANCED/DISPLAY

UNCHECK (disable) both of the following:

1. LEGACY DRAG PREVIEW

2. DISABLE HARDWARE GRAPHICS ACCELERATOR

You must CHECK the box, not uncheck it

_{Monday, August 28, 2017 1:47 PM}

This didn't work for me. Still getting Not Responding message.

_{Wednesday, July 3, 2019 5:33 AM}

MS Office really got painfully slow. And we can not use Publisher anymore. From top-edge professional software it slowly became a bloat-ware added to Office just for a check-mark.

Ridiculous, while trying to change something in Excell, Word (with negative results), Microsoft did not do anything to Publisher for years. It just got slower and dumber as a manifestation of these qualities of microsoft's compiller, and the new bondage-UI.

"Make sure your Office is NEVER up-to-date, so there would be no problem with Office"

Office 4-95: Planting bugs into Word and Excel
Office 95-2000: Fighting with countless bugs
Office 2000-2003: Improving UI, script-engine, fixing modular engine bugs
Office 2003-2007: Moving to x64, while removing features and destroying UI
Office 2007-2013: Killing unified WMF object exchange and rendering, slowing down.
Office 2013-2016: removing features, formats.

In residue, Office 2003 is the best, fastest and most stable software for Windows, MS ever released. Nothing was changed for good after Office 2003's last service-pack.

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