Excel slow with charts

[Will_Handler]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

Just upgraded all my machines to 2008, users are reporting that excel is very slow whenever they use a chart. I checked it out and had a simple spreadsheet with a couple of charts and scrolling uses all the CPU. This makes working with excel2008 fairly painful.

I imagine that others have had this issue but found the search tools on mactopia for previous posts uninformative.

Will

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi Will -

Obviously CPU/RAM/Active processes & more are all variables that need to be
taken into consideration, but there is no doubt that the speed across all
apps in Mac Office 2008 leaves something to be desired. It seems to be more
of an issue for some than for others, but MacBU is aware of the situation &
working quite hard to improve performance. If you haven't already done so
apply the 12.0.1 update which may help a bit. Further improvement is
[hopefully] on the way, but in the meantime have your users try to be as
conservative with their system resources as practicality will allow - Not
saying it's the case in your shop, but it's surprising how many users will
have 3-4 programs running with half a dozen files open in each on a 1 GB
system & wonder why things are "so slowwww"

 

[William Handler]

As regards ram, the user machines have 2 GB of RAM, which is plenty. They have about 600 MB being used and excel is using about 80 MB with almost 1GB free. Its not a RAM issue. The graphic rendering is clearly not being done correctly as the CPU shoots to max when you scroll a sheet with a chart.

When I tested the problem on my machine I had no other processes running. The excel version is 12.0, I will do the update and see if that fixes things.

Thanks for the feedback

Will

Hi Will -

Obviously CPU/RAM/Active processes & more are all variables that need to be
taken into consideration, but there is no doubt that the speed across all
apps in Mac Office 2008 leaves something to be desired. It seems to be more
of an issue for some than for others, but MacBU is aware of the situation &
working quite hard to improve performance. If you haven't already done so
apply the 12.0.1 update which may help a bit. Further improvement is
[hopefully] on the way, but in the meantime have your users try to be as
conservative with their system resources as practicality will allow - Not
saying it's the case in your shop, but it's surprising how many users will
have 3-4 programs running with half a dozen files open in each on a 1 GB
system & wonder why things are "so slowwww"
--
Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

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Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

Just upgraded all my machines to 2008, users are reporting that excel is
very slow whenever they use a chart. I checked it out and had a simple
spreadsheet with a couple of charts and scrolling uses all the CPU. This
makes working with excel2008 fairly painful.

I imagine that others have had this issue but found the search tools on
mactopia for previous posts uninformative.

Will