Many people have reported performance issues with Excel 2007. No one has
posted an explanation or an answer so far, especially MS. As to the Word
file size that's news to me but this is an Excel NG. Have you tried the new
DOCX format? Users of Office 2003 would have to install the file converter
to read them but it might reduce file size.

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Jim
"JohnnyG" wrote in message
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|I have upgraded from Excel 2003 to Excel 2007 and am experiencing a
| tremendous decrease in speed. The following speed comparisons were done on
| the same machinewith the same file containing about 50 columnsx 5000 rows
of
| data and 7 charts of the data.
|
| Time to select 4 charts:
| Excel 2003: 4 seconds
| Excel 2007: 57 seconds
|
| Time to copy the 4 selected charts and paste them into Words 2007:
| Excel 2003: 18 seconds
| Excel 2007: 60 seconds
|
| Finally, when saving the Word file in .doc format with the same graphs
| pasted from the same excel file, here are the file sizes:
| Graphs from Excel 2003: 187K
| Graphs from Excel 2007: 235k
|
| Is there any way to speed up Excel 2007? And why are the Word files
larger?
| This is a problem because we zip up a number of word files and send them
via
| email - the same files with graphs from Excel 2007 are now too large to
send
| in one email.
|
| Thanks,
| John
|