Drop Down Boxes

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Paul Williams

Hello,

Can anyone help please?

When using Office 2000 applications the drop down boxes
(File, Edit, View etc) take an age to appear when I click
on them. The Drop Down boxes on other applications such
as Internet Explorer appear instantaneously. This is
getting to be a pain as, for example, if i want to 'save
as' an Excel spreadsheet, I click on 'File' and the list
slowly appears - It can take up to 6 seconds. When I open
the Windows task manager and open the 'performance' tab,
I notice that when I click on 'File' in Excel the CPU
usage goes to 100% - This can't be right.

Regards

P Williams
 
If you have animation turned on, turn it off:

Choose Tools>Options, and select the Edit tab
Remove the check mark from "Provide Feedback with Animation"
Click OK

Choose Tools>Customize
 
In xl2002, that Tools|Customize|Options Tab, the setting for menu animations is
"(none)".

I think it was "(none)" in xl2k--but my memory is fading....

To the OP:

It never hurts to empty the windows temp folder (with excel closed), but it may
not help.

You may want to take a look at these two sites
(Charles Williams and David McRitchie):

http://www.decisionmodels.com
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/slowresp.htm

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I use provide feedback with animation, but I have the menus expanding with
"(none)".

I think I'd try Debra's menu expanding suggestion before turning off the
feedback stuff.
 
In my Excel 2000, it's "None"
In Excel 2002 and 2003, it's "System Default"

Is it system related, or did installing Excel 2003 change something?

Dave said:
In xl2002, that Tools|Customize|Options Tab, the setting for menu animations is
"(none)".

I think it was "(none)" in xl2k--but my memory is fading....

To the OP:

It never hurts to empty the windows temp folder (with excel closed), but it may
not help.

You may want to take a look at these two sites
(Charles Williams and David McRitchie):

http://www.decisionmodels.com
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/slowresp.htm

========
I use provide feedback with animation, but I have the menus expanding with
"(none)".

I think I'd try Debra's menu expanding suggestion before turning off the
feedback stuff.
Click to expand...
 
I run win98. (It was new 6 years ago!)

In xl2002, I (still) get "(none)".
Under winNT 4.0 sp6, xl2k, I got "(none)" (IIRC).
under win2k, xl2k, I get "(none)".

I wouldn't venture a guess on why--well, one. You do use the Canadian
version???


Maybe it reads:
"system default, eh"

(oh, oh!)




Debra said:
In my Excel 2000, it's "None"
In Excel 2002 and 2003, it's "System Default"

Is it system related, or did installing Excel 2003 change something?
Click to expand...
 
Maybe it's a metric thing, eh?

Dave said:
I run win98. (It was new 6 years ago!)

In xl2002, I (still) get "(none)".
Under winNT 4.0 sp6, xl2k, I got "(none)" (IIRC).
under win2k, xl2k, I get "(none)".

I wouldn't venture a guess on why--well, one. You do use the Canadian
version???


Maybe it reads:
"system default, eh"

(oh, oh!)
Click to expand...
 
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