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Excel 365 is UNUSABLE for professional work — performance has catastrophically degraded
Here is what I have already tried — NONE of it helped:
What is the number of objects (shapes, charts, pictures, icons, etc.) in your sheet?
Take a look at the selection pane.
In this specific spread Worksheet not that many (see Selection Pane on the right). The Workbook, however, has many tabs (see the bottom of the picture). But there is nothing new about these spreadsheets - I have used the same (or very similar template) since 2005. This is not an issue of my "lack of experience" with Excel or these models.
Note that I have the "Oval 39" and "Line 36" selected. If I drag it to the side, Excel blinks, struggles, and - after a few seconds - moves it. The behavior is the same in two machines and multiple spreadsheets. It started a couple of weeks ago (but got worse a few days ago).
Microsoft did something (or many things) stupid and is making Excel's performance a disaster for power users.
