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title: "Fix: PowerPoint 2007 Very Slow Text Editing"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/11/3/fix-powerpoint-2007-very-slow-text-editing.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/11/3/fix-powerpoint-2007-very-slow-text-editing.html"
published: "2007-11-03T16:37:19"
updated: "2007-11-03T16:37:19"
tags: []
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I was cursing at my Powerpoint 2007 the past few days, wondering if I should just go back to Office 200. Text editing in Powerpoint was dog slow and I was cursing every word I was writing in there. It was a big problem.…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# Fix: PowerPoint 2007 Very Slow Text Editing

By Roy Osherove November 3, 2007

**Historical article** · Originally published November 3, 2007; technical details may be outdated.

I was cursing at my Powerpoint 2007 the past few days, wondering if I should just go back to Office 200.

Text editing in Powerpoint was dog slow and I was cursing every word I was writing in there. It was a big problem.

Then I found [this helpful page](http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00850.htm)  which essentially says that any problems related to slow text editing are probably due to a bad printer driver or an old installation of the printer driver.

**Solution: Make sure your printer driver is installed correctly**

I checked my printer driver and indeed, it was not installed correctly. I quickly installed the latest version and voila - Powerpoint 2007 now works like a champ.

It seems weird and very annoying to me that PowerPoint performs slowly even if you don't fo any printing on it, just editing. Very weird, and very annoying.


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## About the author

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