John-
I don't care for Bill Gates bashing or "M$" and all that either, but Peter
didn't do any of that. He just let out a primordial scream. Your points are
all valid, I just think you should have saved them for a poster who merited
them.<g>
As for XL2007 performance issues, MS is surely aware of them and I imagine
has all the example it needs. If not it can ask via Dave's blog as it did
for PivotTable examples in April.
--
Jim
| Hi Jim.
|
| Indeed many people have reported problems with 2007 - I reported a few
when
| I was beta testing Excel 2007.
|
| Here's my point though - why doesn't the poster describe what the problem
| is and give an example of this and maybe get in touch with David Gainer at
| Microsoft - you can contact him via his blog at
http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/
|
| Along with a lot of folks on this newsgroup I try and help people with
| problems - you can type my surname into the search facility and see that I
| answer a lot of questions about real time data such a s Bloomberg and
Reuters
| and using this with Excel.
|
| Do folks think Bill Gates will read a newsgroup posting and then say "Stop
| everything - here's an unspecified performance issue with something to do
| with Excel 2007". No, but if you actually engage with Microsoft in a
| sensible way - list the problem and so on, you will find that they will
| usually respond.
|
| I don't work for Microsoft and I often criticise them but do so in a
manner
| that says "here's a specific problem, here's why it's a problem and here's
a
| few ideas about this" and you know what - Microsoft do listen. They have
| what - 500 million users (maybe more - I don't know) so they cannot simply
| drop everything and respond to every unstructured complaint.
|
| Raise the issue in a sensible way, show that you have researched it and
then
| be part of the solution, not sitting on the touchline complaining.
|
|
| --
|
http://www.alignment-systems.com
|
|
| "Jim Rech" wrote:
|
| > It's probably not the code, John. Many people have reported performance
| > degradation in Excel 2007, from moderate to severe. And I don't see a
rant
| > in Peter's post. I think customers have a right to be _very_
disappointed
| > and express it.
| >
| > --
| > Jim
| > | > | Hi Peter,
| > |
| > | If you'd like some assistance from folks on here then why not post
your
| > code
| > | and describe the problem, perhaps indicating what you have tried
already.
| > | Alternatively, just post a one off rant and blame Bill Gates for
| > everything.
| > |
| > |
| > |
| > |
| > | --
| > |
www.alignment-systems.com
| > |
| > |
| > | "Peter Acton" wrote:
| > |
| > | > How can VBA code which executes in under one second in Excel 2003
turn
| > into a
| > | > marathon 62 seconds in Excel 2007?
| > | >
| > | > ----------------
| > | > This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to
the
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the
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follow
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| > then
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| > | >
| >
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| >
| >
| >
