You are not the first, by any means, to comment on Excel X's speed
issues. Please do send a copy of your spreadsheet to Microsoft via Jim
Gordon. We can only hope that MS takes our collective complaints
seriously enough to solve the problem and issue a fix...

In <ce7e62d7.0306191622.368c5ddf[at]posting.google.com> Greg wrote:
> I just switched over to OSX from 9.2. I have found Excel X to be
> excruciatingly slow on files that were no problem for Excel 98 (so
> long as I allocated enough RAM to Excel). When I try to copy large
> blocks of cells (e.g., 30K rows by 50 columns), it takes Excel 98 a
> few seconds but Excel X takes 5 minutes or more! When I try to run
> macros in Excel X, the commands are excecuted very slowly (again,
> minutes instead of seconds).
>
> Details that may be relevant: The files I'm having trouble with are
> fairly large (75 MB). The computer I'm using is a 667 Mhz powerbook
> with 512 MB of RAM. I have run all the latest OSX and Office updates.
>
> Have other people reported this problem or is it likely to be a
> problem with my system?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg
>

Hi

Greg did send example workbooks and they have been forwarded to the MacBU
for testing purposes.

If anyone else has an example they are willing to share with the MacBU
please send an email to me. Make the subject noticeable so it stands out
among the hundreds of SPAM messages.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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Thanks.

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In article <20030630125919710-0700[at]msnews.microsoft.com>, Doron Kauper
<doronk[at]hookups.com> wrote:


>
> You are not the first, by any means, to comment on Excel X's speed
> issues. Please do send a copy of your spreadsheet to Microsoft via Jim
> Gordon. We can only hope that MS takes our collective complaints
> seriously enough to solve the problem and issue a fix...
>
> In <ce7e62d7.0306191622.368c5ddf[at]posting.google.com> Greg wrote:
>> I just switched over to OSX from 9.2. I have found Excel X to be
>> excruciatingly slow on files that were no problem for Excel 98 (so
>> long as I allocated enough RAM to Excel). When I try to copy large
>> blocks of cells (e.g., 30K rows by 50 columns), it takes Excel 98 a
>> few seconds but Excel X takes 5 minutes or more! When I try to run
>> macros in Excel X, the commands are excecuted very slowly (again,
>> minutes instead of seconds).
>>
>> Details that may be relevant: The files I'm having trouble with are
>> fairly large (75 MB). The computer I'm using is a 667 Mhz powerbook
>> with 512 MB of RAM. I have run all the latest OSX and Office updates.
>>
>> Have other people reported this problem or is it likely to be a
>> problem with my system?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Greg
>>