Slow performance & limitation

[Sergio Gi.Ma.G.]

Hi to all,
I already explained problems but no one help me to solve problems that I
have in excel 2004 and my MAC

First (most serious problem): performance!
I have a SIMPLY file with 6 sheets with basic calculation (like sum) ; so in
a sheet with 3000 row and 6 colums (very small is not it?) the scroll is
VERY VERY SLOW. It take 8-10 seconds after my cursor move up or down. Forget
it to select an area to cut, paste, copy or something like that: it takes
15-20 seconds.
I try to delete application and reistall all office package but the result
is the same.
With Monitor utility I see there is a very indepth use of processor. Could
anyone can help me?

SECOND (stupid but............): validate cell
Validation of cells from a list is limitate to 1024 elements : in a win
environment there is no limitation. Is a bug? Limtation?

Thank to all for helping me find a soution (specially for the first
problem!)
Sergio





Environment: excel 11.3.5 MacOS 10.4.11

 

[Michael Vilain]

Hi to all,
I already explained problems but no one help me to solve problems that I
have in excel 2004 and my MAC

First (most serious problem): performance!
I have a SIMPLY file with 6 sheets with basic calculation (like sum) ; so in
a sheet with 3000 row and 6 colums (very small is not it?) the scroll is
VERY VERY SLOW. It take 8-10 seconds after my cursor move up or down. Forget
it to select an area to cut, paste, copy or something like that: it takes
15-20 seconds.
I try to delete application and reistall all office package but the result
is the same.
With Monitor utility I see there is a very indepth use of processor. Could
anyone can help me?

SECOND (stupid but............): validate cell
Validation of cells from a list is limitate to 1024 elements : in a win
environment there is no limitation. Is a bug? Limtation?

Thank to all for helping me find a soution (specially for the first
problem!)
Sergio





Environment: excel 11.3.5 MacOS 10.4.11

You didn't specify the hardware you're running on. If it's an Intel
Mac, that may be your problem. The version of Excel you're running was
compiled for PPC and runs under Rosetta emulation on Intel Macs. You're
probably getting the best speed you can unless you made a math error
somewhere or found a bug in your version of Excel.

You can upgrade to Office 2008 for a whole new set of problems.

Or switch to Apple's spreadsheet Numbers which is part of iWork'08 ($79
for Keynote, a presentation tool like Powerpoint, Pages, a
Pagemaker-lite page layout program, and Numbers, a spreadsheet).

Or buy and install XP and the PC version of Office under Parallels or
VMware Fusion.

Or live with the lack of performance.

Your call...

 

[Sergio Gi.Ma.G.]

First of all : thanks for fast reply
Yes, I'm running IntelMac but let me say "that incredible! Speed is VERY
SLOW"
I already have VMWare with XP and Office suite but I want to stay in a mac
environment. Well, I try to test office 2008 and remake some macros (I'm
sure - as usual - I will have compatibility problems...............)

Sergio


Il 30-03-2008 0:30, nell'articolo
(e-mail address removed), "Michael Vilain"

 

[Bob]

You didn't specify the hardware you're running on. If it's an Intel
Mac, that may be your problem. The version of Excel you're running was
compiled for PPC and runs under Rosetta emulation on Intel Macs. You're
probably getting the best speed you can unless you made a math error
somewhere or found a bug in your version of Excel.

You can upgrade to Office 2008 for a whole new set of problems.

Or switch to Apple's spreadsheet Numbers which is part of iWork'08 ($79
for Keynote, a presentation tool like Powerpoint, Pages, a
Pagemaker-lite page layout program, and Numbers, a spreadsheet).

Or buy and install XP and the PC version of Office under Parallels or
VMware Fusion.

Or live with the lack of performance.

Your call...