Re: Excel 2008 unusably slow



Hi Greg;

I honestly don't think it's a matter of not being already at the highest priority level so much as it is a matter of being able to replicate the behavior & isolate the cause. MacBU has been concentrating on Excel performance issues since the release of 2008 & has done much to improve it by way of updates. Those who continue to have problems are not being ignored it just seems that each situation is different.

Since he's repeatedly posted his email address here for exactly the same purpose I'd suggest you directly contact Pat McMillan at MacBU to see if there are suggestions for remedying your case: patmcmil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
Office:Mac MVP

<Greg_M@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:59b726ee.-1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Hi, I'm not very hopeful of a solution here but I thought I'd post my experience anyway. We have just spent £10k on Office upgrades, but Excel v12 has proved unusably slow for our finance department. Specifically, opening a typical document will take several minutes, and copying and pasting will cause a recalculation which takes the same time. So we've had to leave v11 installed just so they can work.

After searching this forum (boy do i wish I'd done that before buying!), it appears that I am not alone, although not everyone is having these problems. I guess we will simply have to wait for the MBU to raise this issue to a higher priority level and get an update out to us.

If anyone has a fix though, I'd love to hear it.

.



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