Is there a way to stop the check performance pop-up?

Anonymous
2024-05-11T14:13:02+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2025-03-20T15:23:09+00:00

    Yet another piece of evidence of this alleged feature having a real and negative commercial impact for users.

    Microsoft, are you able to supply literally any positive feedback on this? The best you've come up so far with is the theory that without the Check Performance pop-up some users may experience "performance pain" in terms of time taken to load and edit sheets.

    What is the process for admitting that an addition to your software might not have been a good idea. It's OK to admit defeat and just switch it off. No-one has asked for it. No-one is fighting to keep it. Your core users are increasingly angry about it.

    Please, pretty please, with sugar on top... switch it off.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-03-21T08:58:09+00:00

    Hi,

    just for the fun, here one of the answers from french Microsoft support :

    "Vous pouvez essayer d’annuler votre version d’Office pour voir si cela résout le problème."

    In english : "You can try canceling your version of Office to see if that solves the problem."

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-03-21T09:57:28+00:00

    Brilliant! Aside from the obvious issue of that not being a viable solution since updates often get pushed by one's Org, the solution would mean never updating your version of excel, never getting new features or security updates, until they remove the banner.

    Perhaps the best solution is to keep opening new threads until they clear it, there must be a breaking point, even for them.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-03-21T13:11:53+00:00

    WOW! They've got some top notch IT there. lol

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-03-27T09:37:45+00:00

    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.

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