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Microsoft Excel 365 HUGE Memory Leak (50 GB RAM)
Hi! I read this article yesterday and I was wondering if you could take a look at a very tiny program I created in Microsoft Excel. I can email you the Excel file if you are interested. T...
I have experienced the same problem. Really frustrating. Have to close all my open Excel workbooks and then reopen - luckily it can be saved before closing. At least it has never crashed my computer.
Mine does it when changing sheets (mostly when doing it quickly I think) and sometimes also when going to 'the edge' of the sheet, either far right or to the bottom. Sometimes I end there by mistake when getting to eager on the CTRL+Arrows.
I've also tried much of the standard procedure found around with no luck.
My setup is a Lenovo Legion laptop, i7 8750H, 32GB RAM, nVidia Geforce RTX 2080 and Eizo 4K screen and Win11
TO ALL READING:
I can reproduce this nasty Excel memory leak on my machine in a matter of a few minutes if anyone at Microsoft is willing to take a serious look at this. Always happens when manually clicking between several tabs in virtually any worksheet I have open, large or small, including using the Ctrl + PgUp and Ctrl + PgDn shortcut keys. This has been going on consistently for a few months now and Excel was working perfectly fine before whatever update from Microsoft took place. It has gotten to the point where I simply cannot get my accounting work done. Other suggestions in the other posts did not work. I will try the online (web-based) version next to see if there is any difference. Kindly fix this terrible memory leak, Microsoft.
- Mine has been ok since the last uninstall/reinstall with SaRA when adding the registry clean as suggested by tomoam2. I'm hoping that will last but I don't have much faith given past experience with the issue. Mine could be easily triggered by switching sheets or keyboard shortcuts to move within a sheet. It occurred on all sorts of workbooks with different degrees of complexity.
