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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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Unfortunately, there is no way to disable these notifications. The only way is to dismiss the notifications.
You may send feedback on Feedback Portal. Hope Product team will add such option in the near future.
I have a workbook I work with on a daily basis that nags me EVERY time I open a fresh copy of the document:
"SLOW WORKBOOK? 82% of your workbook and metadata that can be optimized to improve performance."
I am not the original author of the document, and I am not permitted to make big changes to the backend of how the document works. It's very complex, but works just fine with no performance issues.
Every time I open a new copy of this document, I have to dismiss this stupid nag banner. I don't need it, I don't want it, and it hampers my productivity. It's not helping me, and I am requesting a way to disable this function in Excel.
This nonsense is what people are talking about when they refer to the "ensh*tification" of software. Everything in the Office Suite is nagging me to do X, Y, and Z all of the time, trying to alter and influence how I interact with a product, and it's exhausting.
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!
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.
Completely ABSURD. That's it - just absurd.