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Beachballs: does MS Office 2016 slow down 4-yr-old iMac with 8GB RAM?
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1789113" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>There is no question that MS Office 2016 uses more resources than previous versions of Office and takes up a large amount of space on your hard drives. With that said, beach balls can be caused by other factors. How full are the drives on the machines which are affected? Have you run First Aid on the drives? (from recovery using Disk Utility) If anything, High Sierra should make more efficient use of the memory you have. It certainly wouldn't hurt to add memory to your main iMac but 8 GB should be sufficient for most things.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1789113, member: 46727"] There is no question that MS Office 2016 uses more resources than previous versions of Office and takes up a large amount of space on your hard drives. With that said, beach balls can be caused by other factors. How full are the drives on the machines which are affected? Have you run First Aid on the drives? (from recovery using Disk Utility) If anything, High Sierra should make more efficient use of the memory you have. It certainly wouldn't hurt to add memory to your main iMac but 8 GB should be sufficient for most things. [/QUOTE]
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