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Posted by MadaboutDana
Oct 9, 2015 at 02:50 PM
Hm. That’s thought-provoking. Irritated by the instability of Microsoft’s Office 2016 on the latest version of MacOS, El Capitan, I’ve just nuked the whole installation with the intention of reinstalling it from scratch.
Imagine my astonishment when I found that nuking Office liberated no less than 16 GB (closer to 17 GB, in fact) of disk space. Wow!
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 9, 2015 at 05:18 PM
Hmm, possibly Office follows the equivalent of Moore’s law, i.e. every new version requires double the processing power, disk space and memory as the previous one…
Posted by Ken
Oct 9, 2015 at 08:37 PM
As bad as it is on PC’s, it think that it is has gotten equally as bad on tablets and phones. Apps that used to be 3-5MB are now upwards of as much as 80-90MB. Tablets and smartphones are really just pocket computers running on slightly scaled down operating systems, and are certainly subject to Moore’s Law.
—Ken
Posted by MadaboutDana
Oct 12, 2015 at 12:02 PM
Without wishing to speak too soon, if anybody else has been having stability issues with Office 2016, I can recommend a full uninstall/reinstall. Apart from saving around 10 GB of hard-drive space, it does appear to solve the various problems (Word/Excel crashing, files being spontaneously nuked to zero bytes, etc.)
There’s a sensible article on uninstalling Office 2016 here: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Uninstall-Office-2016-for-Mac-eefa1199-5b58-43af-8a3d-b73dc1a8cae3?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US&fromAR=1
They also appear to have streamlined installation for users of Office 365 (like moi); much more straightforward.
Cheers,
Bill
Posted by Paul Korm
Oct 12, 2015 at 09:25 PM
Thanks Bill.
I’m hoping this will fix the problem I’ve encounted in Office 2016—especially Word and Excel—of the response to keyboard input becoming excruciatingly slow.