Using MS Office with a Mac OS...

I just bought a MacBook about a month ago. I have MS Office installed, with Mac OS. The documents take forever to load, and my Mac "crashes" several times a day - either my power point presentation or my word doc "stops responding" and even my Acrobat files crash. I got a mac to get away from PC crashes, and I'm forced to quit programs and/or re-boot it once a day! I'm ready to return to my 6 year old Dell laptop...
Thoughts? Advice?

Since Office is not an Apple product, you'll probably want to use a forum dedicated to Microsoft's Mac products such as <http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups> rather than an Apple forum
Be sure to search the forum first in case someone has already had a similar question answered.

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