Excel Gurus..??
 

Guys,

I upgraded to Excel 2003 (Office 2003 Pro) and its like I threw an anvil overboard. What used to take 15 seconds now takes 10 minutes. Saves are slow, computer crashes, I get low resources messages, ...

I have a Pentium 4 laptop with a 40GB drive and 512 of ram. WTF?

I run XP Pro and Norton Utilities.

Your machine shouldn't have a problem with that. Take a look in Task Manager to see what is hogging CPU time. Run Norton's diagnostic tests and have it clean-up your system. If that doesn't work, un-install Office and re-install.

John,

I checked that already and there is nothign else running. I used to be able to run Word, AOL, Internet Explorer and 4 files of over 15MB each with no problems and fairly fast.

Now I can only open up one file.

IE if you hit save, it takes over a minute just to start saving the file... WTF, all calculations are set to manual, temp folders are empty, links to other files are not being saved, .....

HELP !!!!!!

Wil uninstall and reinstall shortly

Did you do a Norton and Office update? There was a problem between Norton Anti-virus and Office several months ago that required a couple of updates. Try running the updates and see if that makes a difference.

I do have all the updates.....

Mine occasionally does an Excel related go-slow, but generally ok. I've never figured out why either, but usually a quit and restart fixes it.

Did you update Excel only or the entire Office group? Not all Office product upgrades are backwards compatible with the other members of the group.

Check to make sure that there are no programs such as IE - Outlook - Word - Excel opening twice. Sometimes XP will open MS products twice causing similar symptons as you described. Even though you exit a program such as Word - there is still another application of Word running in 'not responding' mode.

I would uninstall and reinstall the entire Office suite using the same version of all programs - I have noticed very little difference between the upgrades over the years - at least in the manner in which I utilize Mr. Gates products.

Disable Norton AV when installing and uninstalling programs. Norton AV monitors all .exe programs and can cause many problems.

Thanks much !

When you install make sure you install completely and "Run all from My Computer" you don't want to have it searching for a disc or trying to run certain functions from a cd.