#MICROSOFT WORD FOR MAC SLOW TYPING MAC#
Use the About This Mac option in the Apple Menu, to check and see how much Memory your Mac has. 8GBs or even 16GBs will provide your Mac with the power and resources that it needs to handle everything being asked of it, but who knows what future versions of OS X will require. This is the lowest acceptable amount of memory and the honest truth is that it just is not enough. The current System Requirements for OS X 10.9 Mavericks is 2 GBs of memory. Allow this to run until you see a Permissions Repair Complete message in the window. At this point, you will see the status window provide real time progress of the process. Make sure you are on the First Aid tab and click the Repair Disk Permissions button (there is little need to Verify Permissions since you will always improve your situation by doing a Repair anyway). Select your Macintosh HD in the left column. Type in “Disk,” then click on Disk Utility once it shows up. Use the Spotlight search on the right side of your Menu Bar by clicking on the magnifying glass icon.
Once these two layers are back on the same page, you will not be sitting around watching a spinning rainbow pinwheel nearly as much. A Permission Repair will allow OS X to re-index all permissions being held by the UNIX sublayer (no, you don’t need to understand what that means). Your Mac is actually running two operating systems behind the scenes, OS X and UNIX. Only hold down the power button to force it to shutdown if your machine is completely locked up or not responding. *It is always a good idea to allow OS X to control the restart or shutdown.
A reboot or a shutdown will clear memory and reset your Mac’s resources.Ĭlick on the Apple Menu in the top left corner of your menu bar and select either Restart or Shutdown from the drop down.* As we open and close applications and documents, your computer’s memory gets “crowded” or “dirty.” You can think of this as digital residue left behind.
Restarting or shutting down is always the first thing to try when you have any problems with your computer. Did you know that every open tab or website is taking up precious memory that could be used for current processing, even if you are not currently looking at them? As I write this article and listen to a webcast in the background, Safari is holding on to over 1 GB of my 8 GBs of memory in my MacBook Pro, and I am not even looking at any websites.Ī screen capture of my activity monitor 2. Word and Excel, or Photoshop and PowerPoint), this can cause major slowdowns in processing.Īnother thing to watch out for is too many websites open in multiple tabs within your web browser. If you are running multiple third-party applications at the same time on an older computer (i.e. They are not necessarily optimized for OS X, and use more memory and resources than Apple applications. The biggest culprits are third-party applications like Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamweaver), and Firefox. When you see the name of the application in the menu bar, click on it and choose Quit from the drop down. Click on the application icon in the Dock and wait for it to become the active application. If you see Force Quit in that pop-up, be aware that this application is “not responding” at the moment and is probably one of the causes of your machine being slow.
Just click and hold on the application icon in the Dock and in the pop-up menu, select Quit. Close ApplicationsĪs you learn in our Mac training classes, any application icon in the Dock that has a small white dot or line next to it or under it is still open. A slow running Mac can be anywhere from annoying to infuriating! Here are 4 ways you can speed up a slow Macbook or iMac.
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