Excel 2007 keyboard shortcut response time

[Cody Taylor]

Hi,
I bought Office 2007 about a year ago on my new PC, and currently
consider it a big mistake. I am a heavy and proficient excel user who
does a lot of work through keyboard shortcuts. Excel 2007 has cut my
work speed by at least 50%. I know this is not news to anyone, but
the real issue for me is not the general UI devolution, but the fact
that I can't type the keyboard shortcuts at full speed because if I
do, excel IGNORES them. I'm used to using a lot of alt+e+s+v and the
like, and now all of my paste special actions and other keyboard
shortcuts have to be slowed waaaay down for excel to actually
recognize the keystrokes. Otherwise, it's as if the keystrokes just
vanish into thin air.

I've searched all over and have not seen any mention of this problem.
Have any of you MVPs here experienced this and found a fix?

Thanks in advance!

Cody

 

[Alias]

Hi,
I bought Office 2007 about a year ago on my new PC, and currently
consider it a big mistake. I am a heavy and proficient excel user who
does a lot of work through keyboard shortcuts. Excel 2007 has cut my
work speed by at least 50%. I know this is not news to anyone, but
the real issue for me is not the general UI devolution, but the fact
that I can't type the keyboard shortcuts at full speed because if I
do, excel IGNORES them. I'm used to using a lot of alt+e+s+v and the
like, and now all of my paste special actions and other keyboard
shortcuts have to be slowed waaaay down for excel to actually
recognize the keystrokes. Otherwise, it's as if the keystrokes just
vanish into thin air.

I've searched all over and have not seen any mention of this problem.
Have any of you MVPs here experienced this and found a fix?

Thanks in advance!

Cody

Yes, uninstall 07 and go back to 03.

Alias

 

[Gemini]

Cody, like you, I am a heavy Excel user. I used the trial version of Office
2007 for a few weeks. For several reasons, including the Ribbon UI, I opted
to remove the trial version and revert to Office 2003.

As Alias suggested, one of your options is to revert to Office 2003.

Two, you may want to search this site and see if you can find any suggestions.
http://www.exceluser.com/

Whatever alternative you choose, you may want to send in feedback to MS re
your experience with Excel 2007.

hth!

-- Gemini

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Cody,

As Gemini mentions, sending constructive feedback to Microsoft on specific issues (repro steps, Windows version etc)
https://feedback.office.microsoft.com/default.aspx?productkey=office2007

Can you provide some sample scenarios where you're seeing a significant slowdown in the shortcut key use, where you're seeing
keystrokes ignored?

If you start Excel in Office safe mode (holding ctrl key when starting Excel) do you get the same delays?

(You may want to also followup in the Excel discussion group through the link below if it's more Excel than the other apps).

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Hi,
I bought Office 2007 about a year ago on my new PC, and currently
consider it a big mistake. I am a heavy and proficient excel user who
does a lot of work through keyboard shortcuts. Excel 2007 has cut my
work speed by at least 50%. I know this is not news to anyone, but
the real issue for me is not the general UI devolution, but the fact
that I can't type the keyboard shortcuts at full speed because if I
do, excel IGNORES them. I'm used to using a lot of alt+e+s+v and the
like, and now all of my paste special actions and other keyboard
shortcuts have to be slowed waaaay down for excel to actually
recognize the keystrokes. Otherwise, it's as if the keystrokes just
vanish into thin air.

I've searched all over and have not seen any mention of this problem.
Have any of you MVPs here experienced this and found a fix?

Thanks in advance!

Cody >>
--
Please let us know if this has helped,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

LINKS
A. Specific newsgroup/discussion group mentioned in this message:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.excel
or via browser:
http://microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/?dg=microsoft.public.excel

B. MS Office Community discussion/newsgroups via Web Browser
http://microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx
or
Microsoft hosted newsgroups via Outlook Express/newsreader
news://msnews.microsoft.com