We work on a product that uses Excel, we are now testing all aspects of Excel 2013. During these tests, we seem to have encountered a problem where excel suddenly causes high CPU usage by only drawing some shapes. We have been able to minimize the problem into the following few steps: Open a new, clean workbook Draw an oval, give it a material (right-click, choose “Format Shape”, click “Effects”, “3D Format”, “Material”. Choose any material.) Duplicate the Shape four times, producing Oval2, 3, 4 and 5. Group Oval2 and 3. Group Oval 4 and 5. Press Alt-F10, in the selection window, hide the group containing Oval2 and 3. Deselect everything (!) by clicking in an empty cell. Now observe the task manager. On an I7 Windows 7 PC, Excel now runs 4 cores at around 50%. Also, OnTime functions are not being called anymore because of this rendering bug. Once you select any shape, or un-hide the hidden group, Excel becomes quiet once again. Also, the problem can be prevented from happening by removing the materials in the shapes. This bug (?) seems to happen also on most of our more complicated applications, and it would take lots of work to re-design everything not to use materials. Can anyone confirm this problem, provide a workaround?

Here is the answer: http://devopssurf.blogspot.co.il/2016/03/office-2013-high-cpu.html office 2013 high cpu Short and Simple Microsoft has " recalled" three office updates that cause excel 2013 , word 2013 or outlook 2013 to consume high cpu usage . uninstall the following KB's and you are good to go. KB3114717 KB3114734 KB3114736

this is the answer i got from Microsoft: office 2013 high cpu office 2013 high cpu Short and Simple Microsoft has " recalled" three office updates that cause excel 2013 , word 2013 or outlook 2013 to consume high cpu usage . uninstall the following KB's and you are good to go. KB3114717 KB3114734 KB3114736 go to : http://devopssurf.blogspot.co.il/2016/03/office-2013-high-cpu.html

http://devopssurf.blogspot.co.il/2016/03/office-2013-high-cpu.html

I don't consider this the ultimate solution; however, based on this article I chose to " Disable hardware graphics acceleration ". At least for now, I can work again. And, I'll keep looking for a better solution. Maybe Office 2016...

Excel 2013 High CPU Usage

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We work on a product that uses Excel, we are now testing all aspects of Excel 2013. During these tests, we seem to have encountered a problem where excel suddenly causes high CPU usage by only drawing some shapes. We have been able to minimize the problem into the following few steps:

Open a new, clean workbook
Draw an oval, give it a material (right-click, choose “Format Shape”, click “Effects”, “3D Format”, “Material”. Choose any material.)
Duplicate the Shape four times, producing Oval2, 3, 4 and 5.
Group Oval2 and 3. Group Oval 4 and 5.
Press Alt-F10, in the selection window, hide the group containing Oval2 and 3.
Deselect everything (!) by clicking in an empty cell.

Now observe the task manager. On an I7 Windows 7 PC, Excel now runs 4 cores at around 50%. Also, OnTime functions are not being called anymore because of this rendering bug. Once you select any shape, or un-hide the hidden group, Excel becomes quiet once again. Also, the problem can be prevented from happening by removing the materials in the shapes.

This bug (?) seems to happen also on most of our more complicated applications, and it would take lots of work to re-design everything not to use materials. Can anyone confirm this problem, provide a workaround?

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2016-03-02T18:39:17+00:00

Here is the answer:

http://devopssurf.blogspot.co.il/2016/03/office-2013-high-cpu.html

office 2013 high cpu

Short and Simple

Microsoft has " recalled" three office updates that cause excel 2013 , word 2013 or outlook 2013

to consume high cpu usage .

uninstall the following KB's and you are good to go.

KB3114717

KB3114734

KB3114736
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2016-03-02T18:36:36+00:00

this is the answer i got from Microsoft:

office 2013 high cpu

office 2013 high cpu

Short and Simple

Microsoft has " recalled" three office updates that cause excel 2013 , word 2013 or outlook 2013

to consume high cpu usage .

uninstall the following KB's and you are good to go.

KB3114717

KB3114734

KB3114736

go to : http://devopssurf.blogspot.co.il/2016/03/office-2013-high-cpu.html
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2016-03-02T18:31:21+00:00

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2016-03-02T18:29:15+00:00

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2016-02-28T15:52:11+00:00

I don't consider this the ultimate solution; however, based on this article I chose to "Disable hardware graphics acceleration". At least for now, I can work again. And, I'll keep looking for a better solution. Maybe Office 2016...
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