Slow copying

[Jonathan Pool]

Copying anything from any worksheet (even a single cell in a new
worksheet) has started to take 15 seconds or more (Excel 2004 11.3.5).
The wait wheel spins, and finally the marquee appears. Sometimes
there's another 15-second wait after I press the ESC key to dismiss
the marquee.

No other applications, MS or otherwise, exhibits any such problem.

I have found no other reports of this bug.

Remedies attempted include:
1. Booting in safe mode. While in Safe Mode, the bug is not present,
but it recurs after a normal restart.
2. Removing com.microsoft.Excel.plist from ~/Library/Preferences.
3. Removing Microsoft from ~/Library/Preferences.
4. Removing StartupItems from /Library.
5. Disabling most items from Login Items.
6. Reinstalling Update 11.3.5.

None of these removes the bug.

 

[CyberTaz]

No offense, Jonathan, but in view of how long the product has been in use &
the universally common nature of Copy/Paste, I tend to think it _might_ be
something local to your current system conditions rather than a "bug" in
Excel ... otherwise there most certainly would be [at least] a few other
reports.

When's the last time you ran Disk Utility - Repair Disk Permissions? While
you're at it you might as well run Verify Disk just to be on the safe side.

If that alone doesn't resolve it, tell us a little more about the situation:
Is this a new development - If so what may have changed about the same time
it started? Which version of OS X? What type of Mac? How much RAM, free disk
space?

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Remedies attempted include:
1. Booting in safe mode. While in Safe Mode, the bug is not present,
but it recurs after a normal restart.
2. Removing com.microsoft.Excel.plist from ~/Library/Preferences.
3. Removing Microsoft from ~/Library/Preferences.
4. Removing StartupItems from /Library.
5. Disabling most items from Login Items.
6. Reinstalling Update 11.3.5.

None of these removes the bug.

Doesn't sound like a bug to me. Or anything else to do with XL.

Since 1 removes the problem, it sounds like something else (a haxie?)
that's running is being triggered by the change to the clipboard.

If you run Activity Monitor, does a process jump in CPU% during the
interval between when you copy and when the marquee appears?