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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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That is the least helpful reply ever. "Support team there will have the correct channel and resources to help you investigate more and find what exactly the reason has caused this situation." Microsoft caused the situation by assuming what its customers needed instead of actually asking its customers.
If the feature is not there, how raising a support ticket would help, exactly?
You are right.
M$ added the "feature" that we DON'T like. A support ticket should be raised by the moderator with M$ to add an option for us to use or NOT USE this HORRIBLE "feature" that checks for something that many don't care about. I PUT these formatting options in BECAUSE I wanted them there. M$ should not tell me, unless I ask for help with poor performance, that there are formatted cells that "may be" causing performance issues. JUST A DUMB thing to have to click it away EVERY TIME I open the workbook.
Please add a support ticket to REMOVE, or at least, add an option to SKIP checking EVERY TIME I open a workbook. Once every year? Maybe. Never, that would be fantastic. It would remove code that is slowing down OPENING a workbook anyway!