Drop Down Boxes

[Paul Williams]

Hello,

Can anyone help please?

When using Office 2000 applications the drop down boxes
(File, Edit, View etc) take an age to appear when I click
on them. The Drop Down boxes on other applications such
as Internet Explorer appear instantaneously. This is
getting to be a pain as, for example, if i want to 'save
as' an Excel spreadsheet, I click on 'File' and the list
slowly appears - It can take up to 6 seconds. When I open
the Windows task manager and open the 'performance' tab,
I notice that when I click on 'File' in Excel the CPU
usage goes to 100% - This can't be right.

Regards

P Williams

 

[Debra Dalgleish]

If you have animation turned on, turn it off:

Choose Tools>Options, and select the Edit tab
Remove the check mark from "Provide Feedback with Animation"
Click OK

Choose Tools>Customize

 

[Dave Peterson]

In xl2002, that Tools|Customize|Options Tab, the setting for menu animations is
"(none)".

I think it was "(none)" in xl2k--but my memory is fading....

To the OP:

It never hurts to empty the windows temp folder (with excel closed), but it may
not help.

You may want to take a look at these two sites
(Charles Williams and David McRitchie):

http://www.decisionmodels.com
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/slowresp.htm

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I use provide feedback with animation, but I have the menus expanding with
"(none)".

I think I'd try Debra's menu expanding suggestion before turning off the
feedback stuff.

 

[Debra Dalgleish]

In my Excel 2000, it's "None"
In Excel 2002 and 2003, it's "System Default"

Is it system related, or did installing Excel 2003 change something?

In xl2002, that Tools|Customize|Options Tab, the setting for menu animations is
"(none)".

I think it was "(none)" in xl2k--but my memory is fading....

To the OP:

It never hurts to empty the windows temp folder (with excel closed), but it may
not help.

You may want to take a look at these two sites
(Charles Williams and David McRitchie):

http://www.decisionmodels.com
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/slowresp.htm

========
I use provide feedback with animation, but I have the menus expanding with
"(none)".

I think I'd try Debra's menu expanding suggestion before turning off the
feedback stuff.

 

[Dave Peterson]

I run win98. (It was new 6 years ago!)

In xl2002, I (still) get "(none)".
Under winNT 4.0 sp6, xl2k, I got "(none)" (IIRC).
under win2k, xl2k, I get "(none)".

I wouldn't venture a guess on why--well, one. You do use the Canadian
version???


Maybe it reads:
"system default, eh"

(oh, oh!)

In my Excel 2000, it's "None"
In Excel 2002 and 2003, it's "System Default"

Is it system related, or did installing Excel 2003 change something?

 

[Debra Dalgleish]

Maybe it's a metric thing, eh?

I run win98. (It was new 6 years ago!)

In xl2002, I (still) get "(none)".
Under winNT 4.0 sp6, xl2k, I got "(none)" (IIRC).
under win2k, xl2k, I get "(none)".

I wouldn't venture a guess on why--well, one. You do use the Canadian
version???


Maybe it reads:
"system default, eh"

(oh, oh!)