Excel for Mac Running Very slow

Hi Torasama,

I just googled 'excel running slow' and found your solution. I validated fonts, removed the problem ones, and now excel and word open instantly. Wish I'd known this when I was doing my Masters, can't believe the speed difference. Thank you.

Turning off WYSIWYG fonts menu did work, now excel is super fast. I can't thank you enough for the help.

All the best.

Thanks, this worked. The fonts were not in "/Users/.../Library" but in "/Library", which is obvious I guess.

So, I'm not sure that this is right place to ask the question (cry) but... please hear me...

Recently (a month ago) I got MacBook Pro 13" Retina i5 8GB 512GB. And fine. Excellent machine.

Further, all my work is related to Microsoft Office; Outlook, Excel, Word.

So I bought Office365. Installed it and what I got is Office 2011 for Mac. not even close to Office 2013 for Windows (which I was previously using)

And then I bought Parallels. Installed Windows 8 on them and then again used my Office365 licence and installed that office on Windows@Parallels - so now I have MAC with Yosemite with Parallels with Windows 8 and Office365(Win).

And now all of that is SLOW. My PC 5 years old is 5x faster for Office apps.

What to do?

Please advise.

Best regards.

Me, after many tries I've reached to the conclusion that if you work on a daily basis with Excel, OSX is not the SO for you.

I suppose than better than using Parallels would be to use BootCamp with Win8 and Excel...

It's a pitty but Excel and OSX hate each other.

you should have more RAM, 4GB is too slow, better use 8GB

The font idea was very good. The process I used was a little different. I clicked on a cell to the right of my data on a worksheet in my file, I used Command A to highlight the entire page. I then changed the font name and size and then did it again to get the font and size I wanted for the entire worksheet. I repeated the process for each worksheet in the file. The file then opened in a matter of seconds (still slower than I would like) instead of the 3 minutes it was taking prior to that time. Hope this helps someone else.

Hi everyone! I am a newy at Mac, migrated from PC only 2 months back. I own a MacBook Pro 13,3 with Core I5 4 gb and 128 GB SSD. I have Office 2011, and I am having a lot of trouble, speed-regarding, with Excel. I have a big data base, which works perfectly on PC but does not seem to work on Mac. I have already tried the font trick, and didnt work. Any other ideas? Mac is beatiful, but work is not as smooth as I hoped.

Thanks,

Fede

Excel on a Mac can be a dog compared to the Windows version - large data sets can drag it down. Since I have several spreadsheets that rely on the Windows macro language (which is very different from the Mac version in its window and GUI handling) I have Windows in BootCamp on my Mac just for Excel (and sadly Access). I generally try to use Windows in Parallels Desktop I actually have found that Excel running on Windows 7 using Parallels Desktop can be faster than the native Mac version.

Other thing that help me so much is selecting the predeterminated font with Helvetica or other of the Mac Original fonts. Excuse me for my English.

Algo que también me ayudó, es usar como fuente predeterminada de Excel una de las "originales" de mac.

Saludos, Regards.

Hi. Where can I find this 'os folder' where the 'fonts folder' will be located?

Thanks

Hi, Ruzanna,

Did you try pressing  + space and typing in 'font'?

A Font Book shows up where you can select a font and press  + i.

The font info shows up where you can see paths to individual fonts.

E.g. /Library/Fonts/Baskerville.ttc

HI everyone,

Came across all the posts here but nothing helped me.

But then I just UNCHECKED the following button on the Excel's toolbar and everything became good and fast:

In my case, unfreeze panes helped.

THANK YOU! 🙂

it looks uglier definitely, but it is FAST 🙂