Speed of Excel

[Michael]

I have noticed recently that it takes ages for excel to respond - for example
when opening the format cells, it takes at least 15 seconds. It is also slow
between when the selection has been made in the dialogue book and when they
are effected. Also, bullets and numbers are other dialogue boxes are slow.

Although it could be the operating system but it is run on XP and the speed
of the computer is 2.79 GHz with 1.00 GBs of RAM so it is unlikely that the
operating system or computer is slowing it down.

If any other users have come up against this problem, I would be interested
in knowing how you resolved it

Michael

 

[Jim Cone]

XL2007 is slow; if you don't have that XL version then some other possible
reasons are in this post ... http://tinyurl.com/28mff5
'--
Jim Cone
San Francisco, USA
http://www.realezsites.com/bus/primitivesoftware
(Excel Add-ins / Excel Programming)



"Michael"
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I have noticed recently that it takes ages for excel to respond - for example
when opening the format cells, it takes at least 15 seconds. It is also slow
between when the selection has been made in the dialogue book and when they
are effected. Also, bullets and numbers are other dialogue boxes are slow.

Although it could be the operating system but it is run on XP and the speed
of the computer is 2.79 GHz with 1.00 GBs of RAM so it is unlikely that the
operating system or computer is slowing it down.
If any other users have come up against this problem, I would be interested
in knowing how you resolved it
Michael

 

[Stan Brown]

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:11:10 -0800 from Michael

I have noticed recently that it takes ages for excel to respond

Is this new? If so, do a thorough scan for malware.

If this is not new, which version of Excel? 2007 was a lot slower
than 2003, but Service Pack 1 improves things significantly.

 

[Michael]

Hi Jim,

Thanks for all your help - the link at tinyurl.com was very useful. It was
the google toolbar which was causing the problem. The version of Excel I
have is 2003 and since XL2007 is very slow, I don't think I will be upgrading
any time soon.


Michael

 

[Michael]

Hi Stan,

Thanks for all your help. It was the google toolbar which was causing the
problem and now it is sorted.

Michael

 

[Stan Brown]

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:28:02 -0800 from Michael

Thanks for all your help. It was the google toolbar which was causing the
problem and now it is sorted.

Thanks for letting us know!