there is no page dwn key- scrolling in excel sheet is so slow

[shivani_powell]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel I am using a mac book Air.. I wonder why my scrolling up & down the excel sheets is so slow. even the selection of cells with the shift key pressed dwn is so slow.. Since there is no page down & page up keys on the keyboards , unlike a window bases keyboard.. Pls. help me solve this problem..

most of my work is data analysis & cost sheets.. i will be stranded without this feature & will take ages to complete my cost sheets!!! pls help

 

[Bob Greenblatt]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel
I am using a mac book Air.. I wonder why my scrolling up & down the excel
sheets is so slow. even the selection of cells with the shift key pressed dwn
is so slow.. Since there is no page down & page up keys on the keyboards ,
unlike a window bases keyboard.. Pls. help me solve this problem..

most of my work is data analysis & cost sheets.. i will be stranded without
this feature & will take ages to complete my cost sheets!!! pls help

Have you tried fn-down arrow?

 

[CyberTaz]

Four additional suggestions:

1- Since you don't give specifics, make sure Office (12.2.3) and OS X
(10.6.2) are both fully updated,

2- Check the Apple Downloads site for any firmware updates you may have
missed for the MB Air,

3- Have a look in Excel Help on the topic: Excel Keyboard Shortcuts, as well
as other topics to learn more about effective navigation, &

4- If you aren't already in the habit of doing so, be certain to Quit/Launch
Excel (as well as any of your other programs) at least once daily & restart
your Mac at least once or twice per week.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Carl Witthoft]

Four additional suggestions:

4- If you aren't already in the habit of doing so, be certain to Quit/Launch
Excel (as well as any of your other programs) at least once daily & restart
your Mac at least once or twice per week.

Huh? Citation needed.

There is absolutely no reason to reboot a functioning *nix system, which
includes Darwin / Mac OSX.
You may want to get one of those tools that ensures the unix cleanup
cron jobs are executed, but rebooting for no reason is silly.

If you can demonstrate that some application, be it Excel or Safari or
anything else, has a serious memory leak, then restarting that app will
help a bit.

If what you posted made any sense at all, no server in the world would
work.


Carl

 

[John McGhie]

I think you may need to recalibrate your advice to take account of the fact
that we're talking about end-user systems in here, and that cron jobs don't
run while the system is asleep.

Most of the users in here don't know what cron is, let alone the importance
of ensuring that it runs. A reboot every now and then, on a stressed
memory-constrained end user system, will cure a lot of strange ills that
would never be experienced on a server with a coupla terrabytes of RAM and a
degree-qualified System Administrator.

You're welcome to cite this

Cheers

Huh? Citation needed.

There is absolutely no reason to reboot a functioning *nix system, which
includes Darwin / Mac OSX.
You may want to get one of those tools that ensures the unix cleanup
cron jobs are executed, but rebooting for no reason is silly.

If you can demonstrate that some application, be it Excel or Safari or
anything else, has a serious memory leak, then restarting that app will
help a bit.

If what you posted made any sense at all, no server in the world would
work.


Carl

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[CyberTaz]

Sorry to ruffle your feathers, Carl, but what makes "no sense at all" is to
equate well-insulated servers with the hack, punch & jab treatment given
their personal systems by untrained users.

If for no other reason Excel needs to be re-launched daily because it reads
the system info (such as Date & Time) only on launch.

Also, what I wrote -- as clearly indicated in your quote back -- was offered
as *suggestions*, not techno-gospel dictum. I'm willing to concede all the
points you make & truly wish I had the luxury of living in a world where
everything works exactly as it should for everyone at all times. It would be
great to trim several million off the budget by quietly allowing the support
staff to simply fade away, so if you're looking for an argument you won't
get one from me

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac