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From: sage@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (David Martosko '91)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Microsoft Word 4.0
Keywords: Word,Microsoft
Message-ID: <14849@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 4 Aug 89 19:27:03 GMT
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In article <4621@merlin.usc.edu> gford@nunki.usc.edu (Gregory Ford) writes:
>It takes my Mac II, with
>a 28ms access time HD, about one full second to display the menu
>when I click on the menu item.  I am using the Full Menus at the moment,
>but this occurs on the Short Menus too.  Even version 3.02 was much faster 
>than this.  

Try turning "Load program into memory" on, in the preferences menu item.
It speeds things up considerably, if you're willing to devote the memory
to it.


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