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Sorry to bring this up again, but it is driving my crazy.

Excel 2007 is ridiculously slow. Any formatting change results in a 1-2 second pause before the display resets. There is no excuse for MS Office 2007 being such a resource hog. Someone please tell Microsoft that sometimes, just sometimes, less is more.

Hungary Jack wrote:Sorry to bring this up again, but it is driving my crazy.

Excel 2007 is ridiculously slow. Any formatting change results in a 1-2 second pause before the display resets. There is no excuse for MS Office 2007 being such a resource hog. Someone please tell Microsoft that sometimes, just sometimes, less is more.

I think that might be on your end. I've used Excel 2007 on probably half a dozen different computers in the last couple months, and never had a problem with that type of delay.

Transmogrified Tiger wrote:I've used Excel 2007 on probably half a dozen different computers in the last couple months, and never had a problem with that type of delay.

Same here.

Hungary Jack wrote:Sorry to bring this up again, but it is driving my crazy.

Excel 2007 is ridiculously slow. Any formatting change results in a 1-2 second pause before the display resets. There is no excuse for MS Office 2007 being such a resource hog. Someone please tell Microsoft that sometimes, just sometimes, less is more.

You can't sell less, unforunately.

I agree though. Word and Excel were fully fleshed out 10 years ago. Now it's just crap on top of more crap.

I use OpenOffice on Linux and it works great. I suspect MS has hidden some of the necessary API's for it to be perfect on Windows (common tactic that they use), but you might want to try it and see.

we use excel 07 in the soc. lab and i haven't noticed any problems

Hungry, whats your computer specs that you're having problems with? You might want to kill some startup programs with run, type: msconfig click the startup panel, and start unchecking boxes that don't launch from your windows folder.

I experienced Excel 2007's sluggishness first hand at my Legislative District Caucus for the presidential election this year. We had 800+ people, delegates and alternates, that needed to sign in and be seated. Our IT guy had written a wonderful spreadsheet that was designed to tell us which delegates were absent and needed to be replaced by an alternate. But as they went through the precincts, the program ran slower and slower, until the credentials committee was forced to give up and go to the paper copies and start doing it by hand. Later, we discovered that somehow the program was recalculating everything every time we made a change, instead of just recalculating the precinct where a change was made. We figured out what change needed to be made, but it was too late to do anything about it.

Does Excel 2007 have some sort of memory leak?

I took the file from work and am using it on my home computer. It started off fast, but now is slowing down and exhibiting the same symptoms I had on my work computer. This is weird.

how large is the file?