He states that Microsoft confirmed a 'conflict' and saidthat they are investigating it.

Phil Bevans similarly could not get Word 98 to launch until he disabledATM. Adobe told him they are investigating this issueand that others have reported it. Word 98 - Michael Albright reports that Word 98 wouldfreeze on launch, at the point where the 'optimizing fonts' messageappeared on the screen. Whether or not you see theseproblems seems to depend on exactly what version of ATM 4.0.x you are using- and whether or not it is ATM or ATM Deluxe (Deluxe appears to have lessproblems). We have gotten several reports of conflicts between Microsoft Officeapplications and Adobe Type Manager 4.0.x. Microsoft Office and Adobe Type Manager conflicts? I amnot sure what all this means other than that the ATM conflicts are somehowmemory-related. In contrast, Victoria Stevens adds that she fixed her problemwith PowerPoint and ATM by substantially increasing the amount of memoryassigned to PowerPoint and enabling virtual memory (or RAM Doubler). Regarding possible conflicts between Office 98 applications (especiallyWord 98) and Adobe Type Manager ( as reported last time), Dave Solberg writes that heonly had this problem when RAM Doubler (not the 2.0.3 beta upgrade) wasalso active. PowerPoint has an internal buffer which handles thisfunction.' The only workaround I can offer is saveyour presentation to the local drive then copy it to the network share.PowerPoint 98 structure is similar to a container that holds several objects.All objects, pictures, drawings, text, etc., must be transmitted individuallyto the network share. 'After further research, I discovered, unfortunately, that thisbehavior, slow saving a Microsoft PowerPoint 98 presentation to a networkshare, is by design of PowerPoint. Using PowerPoint 4, saving the same file through theLAN takes 8 seconds.' A tech support person at Microsoft replied onthis matter: EdwardSharp writes: 'Saving an 850K file through the LAN using PowerPoint98 takes 16 minutes. That item claims thatMicrosoft had not confirmed the problem.

The MacFixIt Report on Troubleshooting Microsoft Office 98 has an item called:PowerPoint 98: slow saving of files over a network. PowerPoint slow save over a network: a reply from Microsoft (One emergency workaround: distributeWord files only in RTF format.)

The problem occurs even if Fast Save is disabled(which we recommend), and readers report the problem may involve Office97 and earlier versions of Word, as well. They contained confidential email, URLs, disk directory pathsand other information that is invisible within Word 98 and that never shouldhave been in these files. Sending a Word 98 document to someone else thus could revealrandom private information on your computer system without your knowledge.We opened with BBEdit several Word 98 documents we'd created and documentswe'd received. That is, Word 98 documents can include, hiddenfrom view, data completely unrelated to the document and never insertedby the user. Microsoft Office 98 - Problems & Solutions Microsoft Office 98 - Problems & SolutionsДЄfter an earlier investigation showed no 'smoking gun,' wehave just confirmed a serious security problem with Microsoft Word 98 on the Mac:Word 98 documents may contain hidden, random snippets of data from elsewherein your hard disk or memory.

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