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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 Ma...
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Joe_D
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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.

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    PS7080
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    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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