Unusable Excel on Mac - colorful spinning wheel after every step

[Tomas_Frank]

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

[#2]

Any idea?

[#3]

Really? no solution for this problem?

[#4]

@Tomas_Frank Did you figure this out?  I am having the same issues.

[#5]

@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.

[#6]

@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!