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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.
A family of Microsoft spreadsheet software with tools for analyzing, charting, and communicating data.
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Microsoft need to look into excel 2016.
This is too slow.
i have tried all suggestion i can find on this platform to no avail.
Microsoft team should test with large volume data and provide solution.
Its frustrating using excel since i migrated to office 365 and using Microsoft 2016.
i have wasted 100s of hours
"...makes only milliseconds of difference with one call, but in those cases where code runs, protecting and unprotecting many sheets, it all adds up to a terrible performance issue.
Because it is considered a security risk to modify that, all request for a change have been turned down. The development team will never do anything to make Office less secure."
What's the point of secure if MS has rendered Excel useless for real work and transformed it into just a pretty way to show tables and graphs? We already have PowerPoint for that sort of thing.
Excel is so widespread that it is conceivable it's impacting productivity nationally, something the Fed and economists are starting to worry about.
I have actually been in touch with Microsoft support about this issue, and they have got some way in finding the issue. It turns out to be a call to some Office interoperability DLL (I can't recall the name) that keeps timing out after a few seconds. They are still trying to find the particular function(s) in my spreadsheet that are triggering this call to the DLL, but I will try to remember to post a reply here once they find the offending function(s).
Excel 2016 is a dog. An xlsm workbook I use runs great in Excel 2010. It constantly pauses and hiccups in Excel 2016/Office 365. It was so bad I reinstalled 2010 on my home computer to avoid the frustrations of trying to use Excel 2016. What a disappointment! I have a Skylake i7 6700K, 16GB of RAM and a Samsung NVME SSD drive for C: - obviously not an underpowered machine.
I'm going crazy with this issue.
Crashing and slowness. I hate to go back to Win8 and Excel 2013 but, I might not have a choice.
We resolved some crashing by using Wifi.
Testing something I just read about Cortana device history being enabled.