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Pls confirm 2007 chart redraw is up to 10 times slower than 20
On Nov 5, 11:14 am, Steen T. wrote:
Hello I have just upgraded from Office pro 2003 to2007and have exactly the same experience as mentioned in the above threads inExcelbut even worse - my worksheet calculates a graph from a simple 4 columns by 1200 rows section with no formulas only numbers - it was working well in 2003. In2007it takes UNBEARABLY longer to the point of being useless !!! . I am using 2.2 GHz AMD 64x2 dual core, 2.0 GB Ram Have I wasted my money on the upgrade? Do you really need to ask? Is there anything I can do to improve performance or will Microsoft do something about it ? What happened to the dual processor feature? You could beg for the hotfix. That makes it slightly more bearable, or alternatively if you are in the UK you could try rejecting the product as not fit for purpose. It is about time somebody took up the cudgels on this one. XL2007 was not ready for release and still isn't. It might get better after SP1 if we are lucky. Numeric formatting problems with the simple calculation =77.1*850 does not inspire confidence. And I have seen a few larger complex graphs where it is quite a bit more than an order of magnitude slower. "Mike Barlow" wrote: Hello I believe that ANY Office2007program that runsslowerthan Office 2003 on the *same* problem or application is a defacto software downgrade. Some of these problems may be due to new features that have not been fully optimized yet, but I regard any new feature that slows down software execution to be a mistake -- a mistake that should be fixed. Software slowdown due to larger problem size is natural, but delays due to cosmetic new-features should not be allowed. A 10% slowdown to have more rows or columns would be worthwhile, maybe even 50%. That level of overhead can be absorbed in a hardware upgrade or by adding extra ram. But what we have here is a 1000% slowdown for daring to have user defined axis scaling on graphs with modest amounts of data. It works OK if all you ever plot is sales figures by quarter. But it is dead in the water at present for many scientific users with datasets of a few thousand points which used to work perfectly in versions 2000 through 2003. I believe that Office2007will not gain wide public acceptance if it is perceived to be excessively slow as indicated by some of the previous posts here. I wish I had your confidence. It seems most users are as dumb as Microsoft thinks they are. Perhaps more effort should be devoted to optimizingExcelfor math-intensive, high-speed processing of large data arrays. Some slowdown in the larger more capable model was inevitable, but I don't believe this particular problem with the graphics is related to the grid size. It looks more like daft cosmetic display features trumping functionality. "Nick Hodge" wrote: David RTM charting is a 'little' better, but very much still to be improved (I am sure in v.next). Quoting the 1000000 rows (You didn't mention 16k columns) is something I believeExcelusers, for it is they who demanded them, will rue the day they did. It's a limitation of current machine power (Generally available) and the tasksExcelis put to that make me very sceptical. Anything approaching the old limit of 65k, should IMHO, be in a database. Charting *will* get improved but is disappointing in this version. A polite way of saying almost useless. It would be difficult to make charting any worse Regards, Martin Brown |
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