Hello, all.

I am just a lowly programmer/physicist, but I think I have a hunch
concerning the problem. The new Excel charts look nice, but all the
graphics enhancements are the problem. If you use the ribbons to modify
the charts, the update speed is a little more reasonable, but still
sluggish. The problem can be seen from the use of overlay menus.
Modifying a chart by right clicking on it makes the chart refresh its
drawn area more, I guess, so everything slows. The ribbons allow the
chart to refresh once.

Again, I think the problems with the whole suite are graphics. All the
font/graphic smoothing to make things look more like a Mac are nice, but
they are extremely inconvenient if work cannot be done. I don't like
Macs, but if I have to upgrade to Office 2007, I would get one in a
second.

Microsoft messed up big time. They dropped winhlp32 from their operating
system, and now they have royally messed up Office. If this trend
continues, users will choose a different office suite (like Open Office)
just so they can get stuff done.


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