cell formatting very slow

[Barry]

I am running Excel 2000 on a 500mhz AMD K6-3 with 256mb ram and
win98se.
Doing simple cell formatting, usually takes excessive amounts of time.
For instance, on a simple work sheet with 110 rows, and 12 colums,
removing all borders from a 12x12 area takes over ten seconds - one
would think it would be nearly instantaneously. Bolding a single cell
can take 5 seconds.

All current fixes are on the ms software. Are there some settings I
can change to speed things up?

Barry

 

[Dave Peterson]

Just some guesses:

Try closing excel and cleaning up your windows temp folder--it might help and it
can't hurt.

And if it doesn't help, can you can to a different printer--you don't need to
actually have that physical printer--just change to a different default printer.

If that makes it better, then maybe a visit to the printer's web site for a
new/fresh printer driver would help.