Excel 2007 Disappointment
 

I have been very disappointed in what I've seen of Excel 2007. I have
numerous worksheets that are very important, and I've been doing nothing for
days but recovering them, trying to convert them, and waiting on them to save
to disk.

Obviously it has been extremely unproductive.

I have converted from Excel 2003 a workbook that has less than 10
worksheets, all with lists, has protected sheets, it is modified every time
it opens because it uses random number generation, and has a password
access. I have run it under compatibility mode and also converted it to
native mode. I can almost never open it access other applications, and return
to it that it doesn't have to be autorecovered. When I finally save it, I
really wonder what's been lost.

I have another very important workbook that contains in excess of 100
worksheets. It is the front end of a VBA application. Again, I have run it in
compatibility mode, and also converted it to the macro enabled mode. It's
almost impossible to just save it. It again is constantly being autorecovered.

I've changed autosave to 30 minutes, because Excel shows as not responding,
however in the Task manager, I can see it's probably doing an autosave, and
CPU performance is around 50% for the process. I have noticed that the native
file size is significantly smaller, but the time to load or save is
significantly longer. I would trade time for disk space anyday.

Any suggestions? I'm leary of converting any other work, and seriously
considering returning to Excel 2003. Surely these types of things showed up
prior to release. Is there a bug list or problem list that is available for
the product?

Any help would be appreciated.
--
Ross

Excel 2007 Disappointment
 

Ross

Excel 2007 has some faults (?) but I am happily running 2003 and 2007 on two
or three machines with no trouble (little)

I would look at your personal.xls, excel.xlb and any add-ins or start-up
templates you have loaded and consider temporarily taking them away to see
if issues clear up.

Mine was a clean install on a clean machine as I had so much garbage from
the betas (Both XP and Vista)

--
HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
DTHIS
www.nickhodge.co.uk


"RossR" wrote in message
...
I have been very disappointed in what I've seen of Excel 2007. I have
numerous worksheets that are very important, and I've been doing nothing
for
days but recovering them, trying to convert them, and waiting on them to
save
to disk.

Obviously it has been extremely unproductive.

I have converted from Excel 2003 a workbook that has less than 10
worksheets, all with lists, has protected sheets, it is modified every
time
it opens because it uses random number generation, and has a password
access. I have run it under compatibility mode and also converted it to
native mode. I can almost never open it access other applications, and
return
to it that it doesn't have to be autorecovered. When I finally save it, I
really wonder what's been lost.

I have another very important workbook that contains in excess of 100
worksheets. It is the front end of a VBA application. Again, I have run it
in
compatibility mode, and also converted it to the macro enabled mode. It's
almost impossible to just save it. It again is constantly being
autorecovered.

I've changed autosave to 30 minutes, because Excel shows as not
responding,
however in the Task manager, I can see it's probably doing an autosave,
and
CPU performance is around 50% for the process. I have noticed that the
native
file size is significantly smaller, but the time to load or save is
significantly longer. I would trade time for disk space anyday.

Any suggestions? I'm leary of converting any other work, and seriously
considering returning to Excel 2003. Surely these types of things showed
up
prior to release. Is there a bug list or problem list that is available
for
the product?

Any help would be appreciated.
--
Ross