Office 2004 ON Emac with OS 10.4.3

Question

I installed Office 2004 on an Emac PowerMac6,4 machine running with the OS 10.4.3. - 1.42Ghz
When typing text in an office program, the speed of the text displayed on the screen is often lower than the typing speed.
Please also note that the RAM has already been upgraded from 256 to 712 Mb but did not improve the speed significantly.
Je viens d'installer l'office 2004  sur un Emac PowerMac6,4 OS 10.4.3. - - 1.42Ghz.
Lorsque j'utilise un des éléments de l'office, la vitesse d'affichage du texte à l'écran est plus lent que la frappe au clavier.
Je suis passé de 256  à 712Mb de ram sans grand succès.
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Answer 1

I installed Office 2004 on an Emac PowerMac6,4
machine running with the OS 10.4.3. - 1.42Ghz
When typing text in an office program, the speed of
the text displayed on the screen is often lower than
the typing speed.
That's 'cause MS Office is a resource hog. Still, you should be able to speed things up. Does any other app have this problem?
Please also note that the RAM has already been
upgraded from 256 to 712 Mb but did not improve the
speed significantly.
I assume that the '712' is a typo for '512'. Apple shipped those machines with 256MB, which is barely enough to boot Tiger. If you want to actually get work done, you need 384 to 512. If you want to have a speed increase, you need 768 or more. I noticed a definite speed-up when I moved my 1.,25GHz eMac from 512 to 768, and another increase, though not so much, when I moved to 1 GB. I installed 2 GB over the weekend and haven't had time to wring things out, but again there seems to be a slight increase in speed. (Mostly, though, it seems that Safari beachballs for a shorter time and doesn't beachball nearly as often as it used to. That alone should make the upgrade worth it.)