Is Office 2007 Too Slow For You?
March 29, 2007 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
Reading through another old article at Forever Geek about Office 2007’s problems being sluggish, it makes me wonder if everyone is experiencing this type of bottleneck on speed when using the latest version of the Microsoft product.
Anytime there’s a question I’m curious about, one of the great things about this blog is that I can post a question to the readers and get an answer that my wondering ears have been yearning for. So, here it is, the latest poll.
Have you experienced a major speed issue since upgrading to Office 2007?
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Microsoft should be shot. Office 2007 might as well require to do all work in crayon. havent figured out if it sucks or vista… want to destroy both right now….
good luck calling MS, you get sent to the maLAZYS is fricking Asia somewhere…. an no one understands a simple question in english….
Excel 2007 on vista premium sucks. I just bought a new computer with 3ghz core 2 cpu but it takes 1 min to run a function which on excel 2003 took only 2secs.
Not only that, all of a sudden it starts to re-calculate everything, takes 10mins to save.
but it has many new and interesting financial functions..
After a lot of investigation I discovered that Google desktop was slowing my Excel down on Vista. Removed that and it now works fine. So I would check you don’t have that installed.
John
We have Excel 2007 at work due to the memory limitation of Excel 2002. I think buying Excel 2003 would have been enouph.
The positive aspect to Excel 2007 is that it will use the 4 cores of CPU that we have on our server, when running automatic calculation (controlled by macros).
The main negative aspect is the charting speed. It’s so slow that we did not install Excel 2007 on other computers. Only the computer running the macro.
That’s sad of how Microsoft is going with his software (Vista, Office). I have Vista and Office 2k7 at home. It’s good for me, but for work, it would not be good.
Excel 2007 is a major piece of trash, i have just wasted my time trying to format a simple piece of data and it crashed 10 times. Normal operations like deleting rows while having the filter on will kill the program and it still has the audacity ask if i would like to save the file in their new xlsx format which isn’t usable anywhere else..
I used to run a macro that created charts on large spreadsheets (thousands of rows) with a non-fixed number of rows. The code would run in five to ten seconds on Office 2000. The first time I tried to run in after our company upgraded to 2007 It just couldn’t handle it. I went into the VBA editor and set a breakpoint early in the code so I could see where the backup was. Everything ran find until I reached the line “charts.add” That single line could take many minutes to complete, and subsequent operations on the chart were equally slow. Manual operations can also send Excel 2007 to the “not responding” penalty box for tens of minutes.
Autumm,
I had the same problem.
Try this:
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Charts.Add
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
The time is reduced significantly.