Thanks Jim. You've been very helpful!

Rob

"Jim Rech" wrote in message
...
It's hard to predict what MS will do, but I expect some performance
improvements with SP1 whenever that comes out. I suspect however that
much
of the speed drop is linked to things fundamental to the design of Excel
2007 and therefore not likely to be improved much.

I have to (and want to) keep everything I do in Excel 2003 compatible
format
so I use that version for development. I test in Excel 2007 just to see
that, when we do get users with that version, things run, albeit more
slowly.

--
Jim
"Rob" <none wrote in message
...
| Thanks Jim (and Dave), I suspected this may have been the case, but
because
| of the problems I was having once I converted to the new format it had
me
| concerned.
|
| Do you think that MS will get this product working better than it is? I
see
| MANY complaints about the speed issues in the Newsgroup. I'm finding
that
| it's better to leave the file in the older format to retain the previous
| speed of calculation and opening, etc. (You've probably also seen the
| problem people have when double clicking the file when Excel isn't
already
| open!)
|
| I'm tempted to reinstall Office 2003 and test my creations in 2007 as it
| seems this new product is all about gloss. Unfortunately I need to run
2007
| to synchronise with my employer.
|
| Rob
|
| "Jim Rech" wrote in message
| ...
| You're right, Dave, it is just XLSM files, or at least not XLSX files.
|
| Rob - It's just supposed to warn you that this file type has macros,
or
| will if the file is properly named. I don't think there is anything
wrong
| with your machine. Excel 2007 is generally quite a bit slower than
Excel
| 2003. Excel 2007 has the XLSB (B=binary) for situations where file
loading
| speed is an issue.
|
| --
| Jim
| "Dave Peterson" wrote in message
| ...
| Does the exclamation point only show up when you use an extension
that
| indicates
| the workbook contains macros?
|
| Rob wrote:
|
| Sorry Jim, not enough info. By icons I mean the icons in Windows
| explorer
| to the left of the file name. Or the icon that's created when
creating
a
| shortcut. As soon as I save a file to the 2007 version an
exclamtion
| mark
| appears as part of the icon at the bottom right. Something like
that
| would
| normally indicate to me that there was some type of error, but all
that
| I've
| done is save the file to the new .xlsm format. I notice that if I
| simply
| change a file name's extension from .xls to .xlsm that the same
small
| black
| (with yellow background) exclamation mark appears. I think it's
showing
| that something's amiss with my installation, but I'm not sure.
| The reason this is concerning me is that as soon as I do save to the
new
| format that new file behaves VERY slow, particularly in
calculations,
| opening, etc.
|
| Rob
|
| "Jim Rech" wrote in message
| ...
| No idea what you're talking about. What 'icon'?
|
| --
| Jim
| "Rob" wrote in message
| ...
| Sorry to post this again, but I did not receive any comments.
|
| Anyone know why the 2007 Excel Icons have an exclamation mark in
| them?
| Is
| this normal or does it mean something's wrong?
|
| Rob
|
|
|
|
| --
|
| Dave Peterson
|
|
|
|