Excel 365 on Windows 11 extremely slow and constantly freezing

Anonymous
2021-11-25T23:25:49+00:00

This problem started yesterday.

I installed the optional feature update and then the .NET update yesterday, and the problem appeared resolved, but now again today the problem is back?

When ever I change a table filter, Excel freezes for like at least 30 seconds. It's not specific to a particular spreadsheet, it happens on all spreadsheets.

The only other change I've made is change my mouse pointer color and cursor size?

Regards,

AjN3806

Microsoft 365 and Office | Excel | For business | Windows

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-04-22T16:06:01+00:00

    It worked!!!! thanks so much for posting the help for all of us. Microsoft should have fixed this in 24 hours 6 months ago.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-04-14T07:57:52+00:00

    I also worked for me. I have a Win11 Lenovo Thinkpad P1 with Quadro P2000 but after disabling the internal GPU Excel got really slow with files with less then 500kb. Thanks for the tip.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-04-01T18:07:20+00:00

    I am disgusted with MS products. Even as they keep selling new updates and versions, the improvement has been only on the downside. especially more so when it comes to speed.

    The damn thing never ceases to freeze, not matter how many upgrades of the hardware or the new versions of 365 you keep upgrading to.

    This is a productivity software?

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-03-17T10:01:33+00:00

    I tried all the tricks mentioned here... none of them worked..

    I keep having freezing problems, and have to switch from on Excel window to another till it works...
    If anybody has a suggestion, that will be helpful...

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-03-17T09:04:09+00:00

    Thanks Dave for your post, this was exactly my problem as well. I tried a bunch of the other solutions above but yours was the immediate answer. I also have a fairly new and high-end machine and I was struggling to select a column let alone add something up. I am still dumb founded that after paying all this money for a laptop and software that I have to spend a bunch of time trying to workout how to get the basic functions to work. The more advanced we become the less things work smoothly.

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