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ExcelClaro
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Aug 22, 2022

Microsoft Excel 365 HUGE Memory Leak (50 GB RAM)

Hi!   I read this https://www.soa.org/news-and-publications/newsletters/compact/2015/march/com-2015-iss53/excel-spreadsheets-best-practices/ yesterday and I was wondering if you could take a look a...
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jcorbin_1968
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Oct 17, 2022

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.

 

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Id_rather_ride
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Oct 17, 2022
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.

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