Excel Office 365 2016 So Slow that I cannot use it

Anonymous
2015-10-30T19:44:34+00:00

I upgraded five personal household computers to Windows 10 last week and upgraded my Office 365 subscription to 2016.  Now all five laptops are having major issues running Excel.  Excel is very slow moving between cells and when I copy a large amount of data to new sheet, I have time to play a round of tennis before Excel responds.  Excel is too slow to use anymore.  

I have researched the issue for past 7 days and tried every recommended fix without success.  Apparently a great many users are having similar issues with Excel Office 365 2016.  Preparing to try out Google Docs spreadsheet... anyone using that?

I even brought an old PC out of mothballs with Windows 7 Ultimate but when I installed Office 365 2016 Excel had same slow running issues.  I suspect my Excel problems are in Office 365 2016.  How do I revert back to Office 365 2013? 

I am surprised Microsoft launched Office 365 2016 with this major issue on Excel.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-11-05T14:08:06+00:00

    I'm having exactly the same kind of problem, fully related to using existing excel files made with Office 365 previous release 2015 and that were being managed without any issue at the time.

    I am on a Win 8.1 pro laptop with 16 Gb of Ram...

    Maybe there is a relation with images embedded inside the file, but not so sure.

    I have run the scan utility above and the only thing I saw was a warning about an error on "outlook excel previewer", so I made the registry correction (follow the links that are in the scan utility results)

    so not I no more am having any warning after scan,

    BUT unfortunately it has not solved my "non responding" issue and slowness in Excel

    Regards

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-11-03T14:33:46+00:00

    Download/Run this MS Utility https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=36852

    Info

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2812744

    And if you copy/move an old problem Excel file from cloud to the local drive, any change?

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-11-03T14:12:57+00:00

    I uploaded a clean copy of Windows 10 last night and reinstalled Office 365 2016....  very surprised this morning to discover I still have a slow running Excel program.  

    Anyone have recommendations on next steps??  

    This is turned into my full time job.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-11-02T17:55:36+00:00

    Are these old Excel docs located externally or on OneDrive, or the local PC? John Coxwell:  The old excel files are in Google Drive, loaded in cloud and on each of my 5 PCs I am using Office 365 2016.  .

    FWIW I use Excel on an almost daily basis, most of which have multiple sheets, and much vba, some docs were created under Office 2010 and I have had no such issues in any office version, 2013 and 2016.  John Coxwell:  I did not have any issues using old Office files until I uploaded Office 365 2016... I was using Office 365 2013 previously.  I also upgraded to Windows 10.  I had one laptop that still had Windows 7 Ultimate but it has same slow running issues as my other PCs runniung Windows 10.

    If you open Excel using the safe switch (Hold the Ctrl Key when starting excel) then within excel open the doc, what then?  I have same slow running issues running Excel in safe mode.

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-11-02T15:35:47+00:00

    Are these old Excel docs located externally or on OneDrive, or the local PC?

    FWIW I use Excel on an almost daily basis, most of which have multiple sheets, and much vba, some docs were created under Office 2010 and I have had no such issues in any office version, 2013 and 2016

    If you open Excel using the safe switch (Hold the Ctrl Key when starting excel) then within excel open the doc, what then?

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