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Tomas_Frank
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May 16, 2020

Unusable Excel on Mac - colorful spinning wheel after every step

Hi, 

 

I am experiencing issue with freshly installed Office 365 on my MacBook Pro 16` (2,6 GHz 6core Intel Core i7, 16 GB 2667 MHz DDR4, MacOS Catalina 10.15.4), no available updates either for MacOS or Office365, no plugins, etc.

 

When I open excel spreadsheet (8MB, 120 sheets with macros), excel gets impossible to use. I have spinning wheel literally after every click. When I wait 30 sec, I can click again then wait again. However, spreadsheet is normally working on less powerful windows machines.

 

I tried to boot in safe mode with no improvement to excel performance.

 

I am starting to wonder, if it is possible to even use excel on Mac?

 

Thanks for reply, Tomas

Excel on Mac

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  • Joe_D's avatar
    Joe_D
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 01, 2021

    Tomas_Frank I am also having this same issue. Excel freezes for a few seconds very frequently making it really unproductive.  Has anyone found a solution?  Excel version is 16.45 and the OS is Big Sur 11.1.

    • PS7080's avatar
      PS7080
      Copper Contributor
      Feb 03, 2021

      Joe_D 

       

      I had the same problem. Downgraded to Version 16.31 for Excel. Works much better!

       

      You can find the version here:

      https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/update-history-office-for-mac

       

      Remember to turn off autoupdate or else the spinning wheel will be back with newer versions!

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