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I'm on the Insider Slow stream of Office for Mac and received the 16.9 update this morning on 2 machines. This has absolutely killed the performance of Excel on both my 2017 MacBookPro (3.1Ghz i5) and 2015 iMac (3.5Ghz i5). My old MBP (2011!)is still running Excel 15.41 and has no problems whatsoever.The issue is that when I move cell-by-cell, via cursor keys - and whether merely moving or copying and pasting - there is significant lag. This is both horizontal and vertical - and the lag is two-fold.
First, when moving cell-to-cellwithin cells visible on the screen, this is much slower than before. More of a challenge, once the active cell is off-screen there is significant lag before the visible cells catch-up.e.g. I can be down in cell A200 (as shown by the cell-ref indicator, top-right) and the visible screen is still only on rows 130 odd.This happens even on blank/unformatted sheets, although the problem is worse when on a heavily-formatted sheet.Things I've tested:- entirely new sheets (i.e. Created in v16.9) - still the same problem- reinstalling Office: I have done this twice now on the MBP, and twice on my iMac. On the latter, at the second attempt I went for Insider Fast and so downloaded 16.10. In all cases the problem persisted.- Following advice on the MC Community forum (e.g.
Checking network proxy settings).For clarity - the scrolling is fine when using the touchpad. When using that it's fast and fluid. However that work for navigating but for cell entry (e.g. Copying formulae with a cmd-cursor) it's no help.Any thoughts / ideas would be gratefully received!As an aside, cmd-2 used to really helpfully mirror F2 and it doesn't anymore!. Right after upgrade to 16.9 Excel is extremely slow, freezes so I cannot close page. Also When I copy a cell to paste elsewhere, the rotating (looks diff than normal) dotted line around original cell copied never goes away. I have to pick a cellout of my working area and hit Command-C to move the distracting rotating cell so it does not bug me.Also, I recall right after the, Igot a dialog box saying I needed to rebuild the MS data base.
That was not the exact words and what I saw did not look like the normal wording for that task to request.I have been making a lot of changes to various very largeand detailed spread sheets for days since the bug. I sure hope I do not loose all that. It 'seems' to take and stay.ALso.
When saving, it always tries to save to excel 2004 by default and gives a warning if I save to this (older.xls) format, I could loose some formatting or whatever. This is the ONLY reference to this issue that I have seen.I'm running OS X 10.11.6 on a mid 2012 Mac Mini.
16 gb ram, 2.6 GHz i7 Intel. I have been noticing the same issue over the last few days and started to look into. My fast beta is now on versions of 16.10 but the worst bit is the Public release version has just gone from 15.41 (no issues) to 16.9 (unusable) a few days ago. I have beenaway for the last month so not been feeding back but can't believe no one else has about this. I have had 2 clients call me today on this very issue. I have not had an in depth look yet but nothing is leaping out and no log dets to go. I am at the pointof advising them to revert to 15.41.
For Excel if not anything else (probably downgrade issues with Outlook db??Sorry I have no answers as yet. I just did the MS AutoUpdate 3.15.0 (180116602) Recommended 1/16/18 3.7 MB.This just popped up for me as available this afternoon. At first it seemed better on a spreadsheet with only a few celss filled. Then I went into a 2.2 mb S.Sht and it seems to scroll faster, but I still have the copied cell staying with the scrolling outlineeven after paste or return delete or command save. The only way to get the scrolling outine 'off' the original cell is to move to another cell and hit copy. Then of course it remains on that cell.Anyone else have better results from this AutoUpdate? I'm running El Capitan 10.11.6.
No idea if the OS version has an effect or not. I managed to downgrade to 15.41 via a TM backup (productivity back to normal!)However tracking this on other threads I see that MS has now posted an official article on how to downgrade, with appropriate files.
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Details here:an aside - since my original post, I've also picked up lagging and issues across the Office suite - particularly Outlook, but also PowerPoint - so have downgraded my entire suite).
This is simply ridiculous. The Excel 2016 team has already successfully implemented the cell selection animations, why is the Office 2016 team falling behind them?
When typing on Windows, the text cursor GLIDES from word to word by default through smoothening animations. On mac this is not enabled by default and in fact is not even an option. Hopefully this is only a temporary setback and will soon be included in an update.
Unsure if you are willing to look at other website links but here is an image: http://www.laptopmag.com/images/wp/purch-api/incontent/2013/08/qbfox2.gif
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