"David Com" wrote:

I have downloaded Office 2007 (Home & Student edition) today, and am appalled at the very slow performance. It is so slow, it's unuseable.

David

Thanks for confirming my findings, David. Even the new release, though
faster, is unuseable for me too. Just make a graph with 50k data points and
you will see what we mean.

I had high hopes because of the optimization done for multiprocessors for
speed enhancement, and I could use the larger number of available columns
too, but once you add a large graph it slows to a crawl, even when just
chnanging from tab with the graph to one without. My graphs take MINUTES to
get their view generated in 2007, and only seconds in 2003.

I have always thought of the graphics package for Excel to be a poorly
executed add on, almost an after thought, awkward, limited, and slow.
(Immagine having hide non-visible data points option in the tools/options,
not in any menu list directly related to graphing for instance!). There are
lots of non-excel scientific graphing packages that have much more
flexibility and are much faster, but no good add-ins that I know of that use
there own code rather than just using the Excel commands in fancy macros. I
need to combine the flexibility of excel worksheets and vba with the graphing
power of these scientific graphing packages.

If any one knows of an add-in, even if I have to pay for it, that by-passes
Excel graphics I would appreciate knowing about it.

Happy New Year
Larry