I want to disable Excel 365 performance improvement auto-nags

Anonymous
2024-04-12T08:17:24+00:00

Let's skip back to How to stop Excel from automatically checking Workbook performance? - Microsoft Community

This is about repetitive screen clutter, it doesn't need to be there so let's switch it off. I'll point out that contract worker such as myself have no scope to change the settings of the working models of companies we work at. So on a daily basis we have to clean away screen trash which is electronically generated by a Microsoft product. Screen space is always at a premium.

Now the answers on the above link completely skip around the issue - if anything they misunderstand what the questioner is driving at. As another person irritated by intrusive - let's call it feature creep (harsher words could be used) - I'm bemused that increasing product complexity isn't accompanied by ways to clean things up by eg turning off nags.

The issue hasn't gone away. It isn't solved. And yes - just to be clear - I'm perfectly able to redesign spreadsheets to make them more efficient and limit bloat - and I do this if it's in my remit.

I'm also aware that answers can be phrased to close down issues that aren't going to be fixed.

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-04-06T12:53:05+00:00

    I'd like to add my voice to those asking to have this as a feature you can switch off.

    I do have a big workbook that has been fine for me for at least 17years.

    The Performance checks I have to do each time I open this workbook now take quite some time and MY performance is now reduced.

    I makes this workbook I have used for 17 years virtually unusable.

    Please give as a switch to turn this off.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-02-23T20:21:57+00:00

    I agree with everyone saying this is a useless feature if you can't permanently turn the message off. Or at a minimum turn it off for specific spreadsheets. I use several spreadsheets that I didn't create and I have no ability to re-design them because they are templates controlled by someone else. It's just annoying seeing that yellow bar every time I open one of these spreadsheets.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-02-05T00:42:23+00:00

    2025 and still solution???!!

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-09-03T15:16:11+00:00

    Like I get it, they want to ensure that users have an optimum experience with excel. In that vein I understand a notification letting the user know that certain choices made in the formatting of their file may cause slowdowns and that it is not excel itself that may be causing a poor user experience. HOWEVER! A popup that persists leading to continuously having to acknowledge it every time it is used is in very poor taste. While the popup is out of the way at the top it has the alert format which is distracting and it takes valuable screen real-estate.

    It is not unreasonable to have the alert to let the user know, THE FIRST TIME, but allow the user to permanently disable specific alerts. The answer of it is not possible because it would take a lot of coding is wholly unacceptable.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-06-05T18:11:20+00:00

    Microsoft is working on it.

    I repeat. Are they still working on it?

    What exactly does "working on it" mean in this context? Are they actually in the process of addressing the issue? Are they getting beers after work and laughing about it? Did you merely send a brief message over Teams that received a thumbs-up response from "Microsoft" a month ago?

    These are very serious questions that someone needs to ask, and more importantly someone needs to answer.

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