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I'm wondering what people think - Excel 2016 for Mac seems to be so bad that it must be intentional. Am I wrong? Is Microsoft still waging a low-grade war on Mac users by making their products subtly awful on a Mac? Is it just that they have really bad developers? Is it that the developers are good but the management somehow makes them do terrible work? Is it that whoever is in charge of designing Excel for Mac has an ex who uses it for his/her job and this person has devoted his/her life to making his/her ex's life bad in confusing ways? Has a nefarious actor infiltrated Microsoft in order to make their products just bad enough that companies will continue to use them but their awfulness will create a small long-term drag on the US economy? Answers would be appreciated. Thanks!
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A fifth source of slowness has been identified:
A different user reported uninstalling QuicKeys input manager fixed the problem.
Thanks, that's good to know.
A fourth culprit has been identified - Zoom level. When zoom is 100%, Excel runs faster.
.... and this just in.
A third culprit has been identified. It is corruption in the user account. See this thread
Hi Joe and Kenneth
So far two culprits have been identified in slow copy/paste with Excel.
One problem is related to Mac OS HandOff
How to **Use Handoff** Between a **Mac** with **Mac** **OS X** and iPhone ...
A different problem with the same symptoms is an unidentified 3rd party menu management tool.
Very few people are affected by the problem, and so far it seems to be external to Excel where keyboard input is intercepted and acted upon before Excel receives the input from Mac OS, which is slowing things way down.
The jury is still out. We don't know all the causes. We do know very few are affected and so far the problem is external to Excel. The hunt for all causes continues.