Such is life in Office 2007? Almost everyone switching to it that has taken
the time to comment about it has the general impression that it's slower than
previous versions (of Excel). And with that CPU/RAM setup, you don't even
want to think about upgrading that machine to Vista.

"RobN" wrote:

I have a file about 3Mb in the "wonderful" Vs7 format. ie with the XLSM
extension. It takes about 1 minute to open up, and then is quite sluggish
and prone to breakdown.

I saved it as an XLS file, and remarkably, it saved it with a few Kbs less,
but opens in less than 2 seconds!

I thought the new version was supposed to make smaller files and work
faster.

I have a 2.66MHz Celron with 1Gb ram running on XP Pro.

Rob