Excel 2008 on MacBook Air extremely slow

[clownport]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel Can't find any usueful suggestion how to fix the problem I am facing after update to snow leopard. Excel is almost unuseable!
Mac OS X 10.6.2
Excel 2008 12.2.3

Any recommendations?

 

[FM75]

Hi there,
same problem on a 2008 Mac Pro running on Mac OS 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard) Entering data in Excel 12.2.3 got really slow. No problem on a MacBook Air running on Mac OS 10.5.8 (Leopard).

Any idea?

Frederic

 

[CyberTaz]

Odd as it may sound this may be a font-related matter. Try running the OS X
app Font Book & using the Validate Fonts & Resolve Duplicates routines. Shut
down for a minute or two & see if things improve after restarting.

It may also help to go to View> Customize Toolbars & Menus & clear the check
for "Show typefaces in font menus".

Also, if you aren't already doing so, do most of your work in Normal view.
Page Layout View consumes a lot of overhead & interaction with the printer
subsystem. Use it sparingly.

Additionally, in Excel Preferences:

Make sure Save AutoRecover Data is set for no more frequently than every 10
minutes,

Turn off Provide Feedback with sound,

Limit the number of recently used files (or turn off altogether),

Turn off Provide Feedback with Animation as well as the Paste & Insert
Options Smart Buttons.

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

 

[John McGhie]

Yeah, this is a known bug in Excel 2008, and Microsoft is working on a fix.

After you have done what Bob suggested, there are three work-arounds:

1) Use "Normal" view, do not use "Page Layout View". It's the fancy
WYSIWYG view that causes the problem.

2) Change to a USA "Letter size" paper size. The dopy people missed this
bug because they use a strange non-metric paper size in one of the world's
191 countries, and that's the one they were testing with...

3) Choose something OTHER than a Hewlett Packard printer as your default
printer (it's the HP printer driver that triggers the bug).

The fix is in testing now, we should get it in a matter of weeks, probably
in the next update from Microsoft.

Hope this helps

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel
Can't find any usueful suggestion how to fix the problem I am facing after
update to snow leopard. Excel is almost unuseable!
Mac OS X 10.6.2
Excel 2008 12.2.3

Any recommendations?

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[FM75]

Odd as it may sound this may be a font-related matter. Try running the OS X

> app Font Book & using the Validate Fonts & Resolve Duplicates routines. Shut
> down for a minute or two & see if things improve after restarting.
>
> It may also help to go to View> Customize Toolbars & Menus & clear the check
> for "Show typefaces in font menus".
>
> Also, if you aren't already doing so, do most of your work in Normal view.
> Page Layout View consumes a lot of overhead & interaction with the printer
> subsystem. Use it sparingly.
>
> Additionally, in Excel Preferences:
>
> Make sure Save AutoRecover Data is set for no more frequently than every 10
> minutes,
>
> Turn off Provide Feedback with sound,
>
> Limit the number of recently used files (or turn off altogether),
>
> Turn off Provide Feedback with Animation as well as the Paste & Insert
> Options Smart Buttons.
>
> HTH |:>)
> Bob Jones
> [MVP] Office:Mac
>
>
>
>
>
> On 11/27/09 1:07 PM, in article (e-mail address removed)2ac0,
> "[email protected]" wrote:
>
>
> The most dramatic change ocurred after switching to normal view. It's still very slow but usable. I guess i'll wait now for the patch.

Thanks a lot for your help and John's

 

[FM75]

Can't find any usueful suggestion how to fix the problem I am facing after update to snow leopard. Excel is almost unuseable!

> Mac OS X 10.6.2
> Excel 2008 12.2.3
>
> Any recommendations?

This worked for me:

Create a new file or open an existing file in a xlsx format,
save it under a Excel 97-2004 (.xls) format,
close the file and reopen it.

This way I can still use Excel and wait for the fix.

Best regards