Hi Everyone,

Just wondering if there are others out there who have had problems with Microsoft excel 2007. I have just got a new computer at work with windows vista and a nice brand new copy of office 2007. I use excel to analyse thousands of data points from a data aquisition device, and when I do a simple x vs y scatter plot, excel 2007 cannot handle this, and subsequently takes ages to respond (at least 10 mins). I got fairly annoyed so I decided to install the older version (excel 2003) and it works perfectly!

I'm convinced that it is the new software problem, as vista seems to handle the 2003 excel with no problems.

Having convinced my supervisor to fork out money for office 2007, I feel I should really get to the bottom of this, and not let microsoft get away with this! I understand that there will be problems with new software packages, and microsoft will probably release a service pack in a year or so, but surely excel 2007 should be able to do simple tasks!?

Opinions appreciated!

What are your new computer's specs? I have ran Excel 07 on my Vista laptop without any issues at all. Although I do prefer Open Office. Which is FREE, and compatible with MS Office. You could have saved the boss a few bucks! :p

Cheers halo,
It is a hp pavillion a600n, AMD 64 x2 dual core processor 4200+, 1024 MB RAM, 250GB hard drive. I think I will download that openoffice (but don't tell the boss!!).

Although I have not had this issue you speak of. Seems like there is a known issue about it. I just Googled 'excel 2007 running slow on Vista' and there is a lot of information about it. I did read something about it being slow when the computer is on a network. I have not ran Excel 07 while connected to my home or work networks so I am not sure.

I too have had major problems with the performance of Excel 2007 on Vista.

With a slower computer (1GHz, 512MB RAM) running Excel 97 or 03 on XP, I could work with plots of up to about 300,000 pts. These files were on the order of 100MB.

Now with Excel 07 on Vista with a faster computer (1.9GHz, 3GB RAM), I get crashes even with plots of 5,000 pts. (Files of 15MB).

The words Matlab, Python, and nice job Microsoft come to mind.

So glew1028, I feel your pain. I don't know whether the problem is Vista or Office 2007. Please post if you ind anything out.