Scroll Bars.- and Excel Speed

[Francisco Perez-Landaeta]

I have noticed that excel on a Mac is a slower than on a PC. I have a
Powerbook with 512RAM, g4 1.25. and everytime i run excel and i try to
scroll down by pressing the down arrow the speed at which the cursor
runs down is a lot slower than one a PC.

If i have a spreadsheet with 10,000 rows and i press the down arrow it
takes some time vs doing the same on a pentium iii 512 ram.

It just makes me wonder why the Mac Excel version is slower. Any
thoughts are appreciated.

Should i just stick with PC or deal with the sluggishness of excel in
apple ?

thanks guys,

Francisco

 

[Elliott Roper]

I have noticed that excel on a Mac is a slower than on a PC. I have a
Powerbook with 512RAM, g4 1.25. and everytime i run excel and i try to
scroll down by pressing the down arrow the speed at which the cursor
runs down is a lot slower than one a PC.

If i have a spreadsheet with 10,000 rows and i press the down arrow it
takes some time vs doing the same on a pentium iii 512 ram.

It just makes me wonder why the Mac Excel version is slower. Any
thoughts are appreciated.

Should i just stick with PC or deal with the sluggishness of excel in
apple ?

You can set the scroll rate in system preferences ->keyboard and mouse

Me, I prefer to have up and down arrow repeat rate set slow enough to
read or at least scan what's whizzing past. If I want it to scroll
faster, I hold down page up or page down. If I really want to hit top
or bottom fast I use home or end. cmd-up and cmd-down are useful in
finding the gaps too.

You just have to get used to the idea that you have a superior GUI to
deal with.

Whatever else is wrong with Excel on a Mac, it ain't slow scrolling.

If you want variable speed scroll, as fast or as slow as you like, drag
the scroll bar. What could be simpler, more intuitive, or more
consistent.
Let the flame wars begin. ;-)