Hello Mach,

Product Team confirm that this is a known issue in Excel 2007.

I am still contact them for whether there is any workaround.

Sincerely,

Wei Lu
Microsoft Online Community Support

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These "performance issues" are not isolated to Excel 2007 only.

This is a real problem across the entire Office 2007 suite, not just
Excel -- I have the Office 2007 Ultimate Suite running under a new
(clean) install of Vista Ultimate on a very high-end Core 2 Duo machine
with 3-GB of DDR2 and FAST SATA RAID drives (4 of them striped)

Compared to Office 2003 Pro: Word 2007 is 20 - 30% slower at opening
files. Excel is 45 - 60% slower across the board at everything. Access
is generally between 60 - 80 times slower over Access 2003. Our biggest
complaints have been with Access 2007. In fact, the EXACT same database
running under Access 2007 is SO SLOW compared to Access 2003, that is is
virtually useless to us. And don't even get me started on Outlook 2007!
Just do a search in Google for "Office 2007 is SLOW" and check out the
growing body of complaints out there. Seems that MS released a very a
poorly optimized code base in Office 2007 in order to get the RTM code
out the door before it was really ready for prime-time.

Does the software work? Of course it does. Does it work well?
Absolutely NOT!

These exact same performance issues plagued Office 2003 when it was
first released -- remember? It took several patches and SP's until 2003
was really fully optimized and marginally secured. I suspect that in
time, Office 2007 will "get there" too -- but in the mean time, the
easiest solution for now seems to be: Go back to Office 2003 until MS
optimizes the code base in 2007! Not much of an answer -- but seems to
be one of the more prevalent "answers" out there right now.

Good luck!


Brian M

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Wei, et.al.,

To add a bit more to the knowledge base; I installed Office 2007 Pro but
left the XP Version (including Excel 2002) on my system. I am running XP
SP-2 and recently upgraded the memory from 0.5G to 1.0G.

Excel files that ran acceptably fast in the 2002 version now are
incredibly slow with 2007. I'm not talking about just "slower"; it's
unusable. A simple operation like changing the symbol size on a scatter
chart takes over 5-minutes to accomplish wiht 2007 while the same
operation takes only two or three seconds with 2002. This isn't because
of my learning curve w/r the UI, it is because of some terrible internal
problems with Microsoft's code.

I can supply a copy of the file.

Regards,

Tim C.


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Hello Wei,

So, a month on, is there any progress on finding a fix or workaround
for this problem?

Thanks,

RichF

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Hello Mach,

Product Team confirm that this is a known issue in Excel2007.

I am still contact them for whether there is any workaround.

Sincerely,

Wei Lu
Microsoft Online Community Support

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I am having the same problem. I am a very small business owner with no IT
staff. Since installing Office & Excel 2007 my productivity has decreased
significantly. I no longer have the 2003 version, so I'm stuck. In my
appraisal spreadsheets I can make an entry, walk to the kitchen for a cup of
coffee and return to the computer before the change takes place. I tried the
same spreadsheet on an associate's machine running 2003 and the changes just
zipped right through.
I am verrrrry interested in whatever fix MS can make.
--
MaryH


"RichardF" wrote:

Hello Wei,

So, a month on, is there any progress on finding a fix or workaround
for this problem?

Thanks,

RichF

On 3 May, 08:57, (Wei Lu [MSFT]) wrote:
Hello Mach,

Product Team confirm that this is a known issue in Excel2007.

I am still contact them for whether there is any workaround.

Sincerely,

Wei Lu
Microsoft Online Community Support

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I am also having the same problem. I thought it was the feedback sounds, so I
turned off all warings and sounds. It will run VERY slow. I have found that
if I run it right after a reboot, it runs fast. The next time I run it, it is
so slow I can go for a walk on a 480 row by 3 column spreadsheet (very small
- very slow). I cannot turn off the feedback sounds and they build up in a
queue that keeps getting worse. I don't know if the sound building up in a
stack is slowing down things. Does your Excel 2007 apps run okay after a
re-boot or are they still slow?

"MaryH" wrote:

I am having the same problem. I am a very small business owner with no IT
staff. Since installing Office & Excel 2007 my productivity has decreased
significantly. I no longer have the 2003 version, so I'm stuck. In my
appraisal spreadsheets I can make an entry, walk to the kitchen for a cup of
coffee and return to the computer before the change takes place. I tried the
same spreadsheet on an associate's machine running 2003 and the changes just
zipped right through.
I am verrrrry interested in whatever fix MS can make.
--
MaryH


"RichardF" wrote:

Hello Wei,

So, a month on, is there any progress on finding a fix or workaround
for this problem?

Thanks,

RichF

On 3 May, 08:57, (Wei Lu [MSFT]) wrote:
Hello Mach,

Product Team confirm that this is a known issue in Excel2007.

I am still contact them for whether there is any workaround.

Sincerely,

Wei Lu
Microsoft Online Community Support

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It's a little faster after a reboot, but the longer I work, the slower it
gets. Twice, the entire workbook has gone into some black hole where I can't
find it - I think I've lost all the data only to have it resurface again
when I reboot. I've been wondering if it has anything to do with all the
indexing that goes on in the background.
--
MaryH


"Pause" wrote:

I am also having the same problem. I thought it was the feedback sounds, so I
turned off all warings and sounds. It will run VERY slow. I have found that
if I run it right after a reboot, it runs fast. The next time I run it, it is
so slow I can go for a walk on a 480 row by 3 column spreadsheet (very small
- very slow). I cannot turn off the feedback sounds and they build up in a
queue that keeps getting worse. I don't know if the sound building up in a
stack is slowing down things. Does your Excel 2007 apps run okay after a
re-boot or are they still slow?

"MaryH" wrote:

I am having the same problem. I am a very small business owner with no IT
staff. Since installing Office & Excel 2007 my productivity has decreased
significantly. I no longer have the 2003 version, so I'm stuck. In my
appraisal spreadsheets I can make an entry, walk to the kitchen for a cup of
coffee and return to the computer before the change takes place. I tried the
same spreadsheet on an associate's machine running 2003 and the changes just
zipped right through.
I am verrrrry interested in whatever fix MS can make.
--
MaryH


"RichardF" wrote:

Hello Wei,

So, a month on, is there any progress on finding a fix or workaround
for this problem?

Thanks,

RichF

On 3 May, 08:57, (Wei Lu [MSFT]) wrote:
Hello Mach,

Product Team confirm that this is a known issue in Excel2007.

I am still contact them for whether there is any workaround.

Sincerely,

Wei Lu
Microsoft Online Community Support

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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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Any word as of Sep 25th, 2007 if there are any work arounds or patches to
this "snail crawl" phenomenon with Office 2007? I am also experiencing
extremely poor performance with Excell Files in Office 2007. I removed Office
2007 and installed my old Office XP to test. The same exact files run
lighting fast with Office XP on the exact same machine with the exact same
configuration. If anyone has any information please respond. - Nick

"Bahali Bali" wrote:


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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... I don't like
Macs, but if I have to upgrade to Office 2007, I would get one in a
second...

That's a somewhat strange opinion for someone in a group devoted to
VBA macro programming of Excel. Given that Microsoft announced they
will no longer provide that capability in the Mac version, that would
not be my first choice of platform.

I keep thinking of moving to Open Office, but the inertia of all my
existing VBA code keeps me with Microsoft.

Bill

I noticed that the last time Wei posted was 5/2007. Has there been any
progress on getting a fix on the slow Excel issue?

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I am not sure whether this article would help...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730921.aspx

If this post helps click Yes
--------------
Jacob Skaria


"Peige Chang" wrote:

I noticed that the last time Wei posted was 5/2007. Has there been any
progress on getting a fix on the slow Excel issue?

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