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
    2017-12-06T23:04:44+00:00

    clean boot did not help. Reinstall did not help. 

    New spreadsheets from Excel 2016 have the same problem and ones from Excel 2013 opened in 2016.

    Sorry, it's hopeless. I use Excel 97 if I have to do any serious work...  I think what happened this application has been so customized for use on the internet that all the necessary security measures have bogged it down to nothing. I would not be surprised at all that on one of the next iterations, Microsoft drops VBA functionality for macros completely.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-11-30T00:13:32+00:00

    clean boot did not help. Reinstall did not help. 

    New spreadsheets from Excel 2016 have the same problem and ones from Excel 2013 opened in 2016.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-10-24T13:02:30+00:00

    Excel 2016 is very slow... Just to copy and paste a formula with formatting to about 3,000 cells took me about 48 hours (2 days). This is unacceptable... What are we paying for? We need speed to work with big files... MS should update Excel immediately, and give us refund for the hours lost in productivity.

    S.W.

    RJ, Brasil.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-08-12T14:37:47+00:00

    Recently purchased 2 Surface Pros and they can't run Excel 365 either.  Just lost an entire workbook I had saved with Excel 2010!!!!

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-06-24T10:32:55+00:00

    Hi Bob

    Disabling 'hardware graphics acceleration' makes Excel 2016 work properly on my Win10 machine. 

    Re-enabling it makes the problem return.

    Rodel, you already have your answer, turn off Hardware graphics acceleration.

    If ensuring you have all current Office and Windows Drivers updates then, NO, there is no other fix for the problem at this time.

    How  can this be disabled?

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