Excel 2008 keeps crashing!

[Moon_Man]

I was hoping that Office 2008 running natively on my MacBook Pro would see a significant speed increase, but leave it to Microsoft, to bloat the crap out of their software, so it actually runs slower than Office 2004. Also, I can't have 2 spreadsheets open without Excel crashing.

Anyways, on to my question: Why doesn't anyone at Microsoft understand that users want 2 things? SPEED and STABILITY

Someone please tell them that their unimportant new features are at the bottom of the list of desires.

SPEED
STABILITY

Oh, when will they ever learn?

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Someone please tell them that their unimportant new features are at the
bottom of the list of desires.

You can tell them yourself - use Help/Send Feedback.

As far as XL goes, though, XL08 has been rock solid for me with dozens
of sheets open at once. Far more stable than XL04 was when it first came
out...

And, while it's not a lot faster, my workbooks aren't any slower than
XL04.

Is there anything particular that precedes the crash? Does it happen wth
*any* workbooks open, or just particular workbooks?

 

[Phillip Jones]

One Question.

Was Office installed prior to installing Tiger?


Of so, might it not be running in Rosetta mode?

Would in the installer read the type Machine and determine whether to
use Rosetta Code installation or Native?

Try doing Get Info on Word and see if Rosetta is checked. (If so try again).

You can tell them yourself - use Help/Send Feedback.

As far as XL goes, though, XL08 has been rock solid for me with dozens
of sheets open at once. Far more stable than XL04 was when it first came
out...

And, while it's not a lot faster, my workbooks aren't any slower than
XL04.

Is there anything particular that precedes the crash? Does it happen wth
*any* workbooks open, or just particular workbooks?

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[JV]

Well this is yet another poor performance by MS. 4 years of development and it is still slow and unreliable. No only does it crash even 10 minutes but it is actually binging my whole system down so I am having to restart.

I have yet to find someone who thinks Vista is in any way better than XP and most hate it and want to downgrade.

I am going to move back to Office 2004 because although it was slow and not compatible with current office documents, at least it does not kill the machine.

How is it that MS has one of the largest developer teams but brings out software VERY late and VERY buggy?

 

[Chrissie]

Maybe ma english is too poor but is there any help available for the stability problem of excel 2008? I bought it yesterday and it went fine the whole day but all of the sudden it keeps crashing after a few minutes. My worksheet is nothing spectacular just a list of names.....

 

[Mike]

My brand new MS Excel 08 crashes my entire MacBook Pro. Charts that looked OK in 04 look like vomit in 08. Most charts can't be rescaled to show the full data set (even the "Auto" checkbox gives an error dialog. I thought that maybe the worksheet was somehow corrupt but that doesn't solve the problem of fixing it by any means other than reverting to 04.