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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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This is catastrophic job done on this message. I do not want to do any check performance. Why are they doing this. This is so annoying.
Probably to do just that, annoy everyone. Occam's razor
This is catastrophic job done on this message. I do not want to do any check performance. Why are they doing this. This is so annoying.
C'mon Microsoft! Fix this already! It's SUPER annoying and disruptive. I've only been living with this for 3 days and it's already making me crazy.
agreed
I agree fully, I've scoured the network and can't seem to find a way to disable this "feature".
The "Performance" and "Backup" notifications are completely worthless and very annoying, especially for creators of worksheets that are distributed to others. I have yet to find one user of Excel that likes or wants this: "feature".
I guess we can only hope they don't start doing the same with advertisements imbedded within the applications we have already paid for, but they likely will.
Whoever thought this idea up should be fired.