Why does office 2011 run slow under mountain lion?

I was in an Apple Store and launched MS Office (Word or Powerpoint) on a new iMac they had on display.  It was very slow.  I rebooted and repeated the event from cold.  It made no difference.  Is there a problem with M.Lion and Office 2011?

I suspect it isn't that the program is running slow it's just these programs aren't made by apple therefore could take up alot of RAM space so the more apps you have open the slower your system will be. Try downloading apple's iWork (pages, keynote and numbers) and quitting some apps. You should see a major difference. If you would like to stick with MS Office just quit your apps. I doubt it's the program.

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