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I have a spreadsheet that I use daily that just started getting the stupid "Slow workbook? 50% of your workbook has unused formatting and metadata that can be optimized to improve performance...Check Performance" pop-up that I'm having to close out every time I open the workbook. It's super annyoying because the spreadsheet is formatted just the way I need it and the stuff "excel" wants to remove is stuff that I don't want removed. How can I make the popup stop? I've looked through the options and googled but can't seem to find a straight forward answer. Hoping someone has some kind of trick to make it stop.
The main issue seems to be that I have every other column formatted like pictured below. I did this so that I could easily see each column of data to make sure I was working in the correct one. Is there a easier way to do that?
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Oh hallelujah! You've just made my day as you're right - it's gone! The evil has been defeated.
It just disappeared from xcel as suddenly as it appeared. It's gone and not due to my efforts.
Is Microsoft really still working on it? A year on. It is such an annoying feature, but they don't seem to care at all.
I see that the complaints began last May and yet this 'feature' did not affect my xcel until a couple of weeks ago. I found this thread looking for a way to get rid of it so at least I know not to continue trying to figure out how to do that. It's annoying. The file in question is 523kbs so one would think the Office people would have targeted humongous files, not drops in the water.
This is just one of the many features that have come up during the years that embrace the mantra "a change for the sake of change", not " a change for the sake of improvement"! Or is it the mantra "what can we do today to annoy our users/customers"?
Unfortunately, this is something that not only Microsoft does, but they are in the top 5 list of companies doing so.
I perfectly agree with everything that was said before, the non responsiveness shows how uninteresting we users are.
What should be remembered is that admitting to mistakes and correcting them is not losing face, but quite the contrary.