Jim Rech said:You're right, Dave, it is just XLSM files, or at least not XLSX files.
Rob - It's just supposed to warn you that this file type has macros, or
will if the file is properly named. I don't think there is anything wrong
with your machine. Excel 2007 is generally quite a bit slower than Excel
2003. Excel 2007 has the XLSB (B=binary) for situations where file loading
speed is an issue.
Jim Rech said:It's hard to predict what MS will do, but I expect some performance
improvements with SP1 whenever that comes out. I suspect however that
much
of the speed drop is linked to things fundamental to the design of Excel
2007 and therefore not likely to be improved much.
I have to (and want to) keep everything I do in Excel 2003 compatible
format
so I use that version for development. I test in Excel 2007 just to see
that, when we do get users with that version, things run, albeit more
slowly.
--
Jim
"Rob" <none> wrote in message
| Thanks Jim (and Dave), I suspected this may have been the case, but
because
| of the problems I was having once I converted to the new format it had
me
| concerned.
|
| Do you think that MS will get this product working better than it is? I
see
| MANY complaints about the speed issues in the Newsgroup. I'm finding
that
| it's better to leave the file in the older format to retain the previous
| speed of calculation and opening, etc. (You've probably also seen the
| problem people have when double clicking the file when Excel isn't
already
| open!)
|
| I'm tempted to reinstall Office 2003 and test my creations in 2007 as it
| seems this new product is all about gloss. Unfortunately I need to run
2007
| to synchronise with my employer.
|
| Rob
|
| | > You're right, Dave, it is just XLSM files, or at least not XLSX files.
| >
| > Rob - It's just supposed to warn you that this file type has macros,
or
| > will if the file is properly named. I don't think there is anything
wrong
| > with your machine. Excel 2007 is generally quite a bit slower than
Excel
| > 2003. Excel 2007 has the XLSB (B=binary) for situations where file
loading
| > speed is an issue.
| >
| > --
| > Jim
| > | >> Does the exclamation point only show up when you use an extension
that
| >> indicates
| >> the workbook contains macros?
| >>
| >> Rob wrote:
| >>>
| >>> Sorry Jim, not enough info. By icons I mean the icons in Windows
| >>> explorer
| >>> to the left of the file name. Or the icon that's created when
creating
a
| >>> shortcut. As soon as I save a file to the 2007 version an
exclamtion
| >>> mark
| >>> appears as part of the icon at the bottom right. Something like
that
| >>> would
| >>> normally indicate to me that there was some type of error, but all
that
| >>> I've
| >>> done is save the file to the new .xlsm format. I notice that if I
| >>> simply
| >>> change a file name's extension from .xls to .xlsm that the same
small
| >>> black
| >>> (with yellow background) exclamation mark appears. I think it's
showing
| >>> that something's amiss with my installation, but I'm not sure.
| >>> The reason this is concerning me is that as soon as I do save to the
new
| >>> format that new file behaves VERY slow, particularly in
calculations,
| >>> opening, etc.
| >>>
| >>> Rob
| >>>
| >>> | >>> > No idea what you're talking about. What 'icon'?
| >>> >
| >>> > --
| >>> > Jim
| >>> > | >>> >> Sorry to post this again, but I did not receive any comments.
| >>> >>
| >>> >> Anyone know why the 2007 Excel Icons have an exclamation mark in
| >>> >> them?
| >>> >> Is
| >>> >> this normal or does it mean something's wrong?
| >>> >>
| >>> >> Rob
| >>> >>
| >>> >
| >>> >
| >>
| >> --
| >>
| >> Dave Peterson
| >
| >
|
|
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