Excel 2007 - The Vista Of The Office World

[closque]

Seems I'm not alone - other people are having problems with Excel 2007 taking more than 8 minutes to do something that's almost instant in Excel 2003.

Basically, Office2007 and Vista are both shit, slow, and don't add anything except a new UI. I love the new UI to bits (yes, I even love the god-damned ribbon that everyone for some reason seems to

Comments

[n1ghtshad0w]

Does the problem kick in after the spreadsheet hits a certain size? or is it just certain commands?

[closque]

did you read the linked article?

[n1ghtshad0w]

the guy from MSFT gives a rather adequate representation of the company and product.

i actually experienced a similar thing but thought it was due to the poor graphics driver (since 07 continuously refreshes/recharts the diagram on the fly). hmm.

[closque]

agreed, and yes it doesn't appear to cache - it's as though it was designed for vista where the gfx cards handle storing the application window in video memory and vista tells it where to move it... on previous versions it just repaints all the time...