Discusses that word for mac closes unexpectedly or that files experience formatting problems when you start the program. Aug 04, 2019 6 simple guides to optimizing slow startup on macbook pro august 4, 2019 august 2, 2019 in general, it takes about 30 seconds for a mac machine to fully startup, depending on the hardware configuration though. Excel not responding, hangs, freezes or stops working excel. Excel 2011 is much quicker than excel 2008 for mac, but it is still way slower than the windows version of excel with large complicated spreadsheets. Announcing the newest addition to apple support communities, apple arcade. Once this is done, open the apple menu and click restart, and then reinstall office. If after removing and then reinstalling office, the problem continues to occur, go to the. Updated to macos catalina and experienceing freezing or crashing issues with microsoft outlook. I have left it as long as 15 minutes before using the power button to shut down. Other notable 32bit apps are microsoft offices powerpoint 2011, outlook 2011, word 2011, excel 2011. Aug 19, 2019 if the issue seems to be an app, check the manufacturer for updates and install them, since many will include bug fixes that prevent crashes.
Fixes or workarounds for recent issues in outlook for mac outlook. This slow down appears when connected to the internet. Most of the times, microsoft office folks release updates that can. May 07, 20 updated on 1162017 so, heres a quick question. To get the latest update, open excel for mac, go to the help check for updates menu, and follow the instructions in the autoupdate app. How to troubleshoot crashing and not responding issues with. This wikihow teaches you how to force your mac to shut down. How to stop spinning wheel in a modest sized excel file. Restarting your mac cures most slowdowns, because it forces background processes to quit, frees up ram, and generally lets you.
Excel crashes and slow performance issues investigating excel file becomes corrupt when opening a file that contains a vba project or after enabling a macro in an open file fixed excel 2016 or 20 may crash with older versions of gigatrust software fixed crash in chart when filtering date based categories in excel, word, and powerpoint. Once in a while, for no apparent reason, you may encounter the spod spinning pinwheel of death. Top 10 troubleshooting tips for mac startup problems lifewire. Aug 07, 2018 optimizing your slow mac to run quickly is a difficult task but can be easily done with the steps above or parallels toolbox. How to fix microsoft office for mac 2011 crashing in mac os x. Excel 2011 crashes when printing certain worksheets. But, if the crashes arent happening when you are using a certain program, its. For 100 data points in the fornext loop, it takes 10 seconds. Fortunately, they can recover the missing files with fonepaw data recovery. If microsoft office for mac 2011 is crashing when it starts up in mac os x 10. Important we recommend that you find your office 2011 for mac or office for mac 2008 installation media and product key before you follow the steps in methods 6 and 7. Compatibility and support available for both windows and mac.
Below is the message ive sent to the parallels manager team. Mar 03, 2020 alright, these are the seven possible reasons and fixes for troubleshooting the mac slow startup issue. Microsoft autoupdate makes sure your copy of office will always be uptodate with the latest security fixes and improvements. Reset the system management controller smc reset your startup disk and sound preferences. Excel for mac crashes and slow performance fixed excel does not respond when using save as picture workaround excel prompts you to grant access to files and then hangs or shows a warning that it cannot open the. Dec 05, 2019 mac keyboard shortcuts by pressing certain key combinations, you can do things that normally need a mouse, trackpad, or other input device. Microsoft excel for mac 2011 represents the largest step forward for serious mac spreadsheet jockeys in many years, more so than either excel 2004 or excel 2008. Calculation speed slow with excel 2011 for mac how can. It is also the same whether in excel for mac 2011 or excel for mac 2016. If the issue continues to occur in safe mode, proceed to step 3. Excessive amounts of custom styles can also cause the copypaste to be slow. Passwordprotecting files in excel is very similar to powerpoint, except that the windows are slightly different. To resolve this problem, use one of the following methods, depending on your version of office for mac. Right this problem is really annoying me now, in spreadsheets bigger than say, an a4 page scrolling is painfully slow on both my machines.
These are my best strategies to keep a mac at its best performance and prevent it from ever slowing down. This takes time and can make your mac shut down much slower, especially if youre using an older mac with a slow mechanical hard drive. Its the black apple on icon in the upperleft corner of the screen. Capability to resolve any issue that might be infecting the excel file. If i open, modify and save a file, i get the same shutdown problem. The problems described are especially severe running windows 10 pro au anniversary update 2016. Fixes or workarounds for recent issues in excel for mac. Known issues, changed functionality, and blocked or discontinued features. Excel for microsoft 365 for mac powerpoint for microsoft 365 for mac excel 2016 for mac powerpoint 2016 for mac excel for mac 2011 powerpoint for. If your mac repeatedly restarts or shuts down while in safe mode, contact apple support or consult with an apple authorized. You can restart your mac by going to the apple menu restart. Its been spinning for 15 mins and i have not saved as answered by a verified mac support specialist. Open an office app such as word, then on the top menu, click help check for updates. My experience with mac extremely slow after mojave macos.
Every app on your mac has a socalled window server. When i close excel not having opened my wpf application or after opening it and then closing it again, excel closes immediately, however, whenever i open the application and then close excel, excel takes 510 seconds to close. As a result of the world cup spreadsheet we have built, we have discovered that excel 2011 can be slow on an apple mac when using the same spreadsheet compared to excel 2010 or excel 20 after investigating lots of possible reasons, we discovered that any picture links watch the video tutorial of picture links here to see what it is are particularly slow. For the most recent information on this issue, go to problem opening files or folders via hyperlinks in excel 2016 for mac. Microsoft excel is the highly popular application of microsoft office suite. Soft reboots are preferable to hard reboots since a hard reboot can result in corrupt application files, incorrect system permissions and other softwarerelated problems. I never had any problems with excel until i got a new macbook pro. Hopefully, youve tried some of them, and have tuned up your mac. Sometimes it is frustration keep up with a slow excel sheet. There are several methods to try to stop the application from crashing. Capability to restore the corrupted excel file in its original form with all of its properties intact.
Excel 2011 for mac wont allow me to do anything without. I just installed office for mac 2016 and each of the programs i use word, excel and powerpoint takes a long time to startup. Office for mac 2016 all programs slow to launch im running high sierra 10. This article was created to help troubleshoot hanging crashing and not responding issues while using excel. How to troubleshoot crashing and not responding issues with excel office microsoft docs. Doing so can be a quick way to turn off your mac without having to use the mouse, but youll usually only need to force your mac to shut down if. This wikihow teaches you how to quit an application that has stopped responding on your mac. You can also choose to paste special values into excel which just pastes in the value of the data and none of the formatting. Word for mac closes or quit unexpectedly office microsoft. Excel is one of the most used applications in our daily life. Dec 18, 2011 i have this problem too and i think i have narrowed it down to a problem with excel and maybe office generally i have office for mac 2011. We hope the solutions explained above may help to fix your issue and speedup the spreadsheet processing. Fixes or workarounds for recent issues in word for windows.
What should i avoid to stop excel freezing or to avoid excel running slow fix excel freezing. Fixes or workarounds for recent issues in excel for. If you have an upgrade version of the office 2008 software, make sure that you have previous versions of office for mac to complete a reinstall. It locks up and prevents me from shutting down about 30% of the time. Update office for mac automatically office support. In this case, your mac is trying to think but nothing happens, so the pinwheel keeps spinning, and spinning, and spinning. Whether in office or in home, people use excel more frequently for many purposes. We were running mac os x lion and the latest version of office and had problems with excel, and other office products running slow as. Troubleshooting macos sierra problems news and tips for mac. Download the mac version of fonepaw data recovery on your mac. Word does not respond when using save as picture wordrake addin causing word for mac to crash since upgrading to catalina osx 15.
First, you want to ensure your mac has enough memory and enough free space. This causes confusion for the system, and adds a significant amount of time to startup and shutdown times. Follow the provided solutions in this article in order. How to fix microsoft office autoupdate for mac not working. Once one program has been start one time on the mac, if i close it completely, it take 3s to start up again as expected. Hold down commandtab to see how many icons show up in the center of your screen.
I have an excel addin with a button on it that calls a wpf application on a new thread. To use a keyboard shortcut, press and hold one or more modifier keys and then press the last key of the shortcut. Shutdown the computer, wait 30 seconds, restart the computer. Discusses that powerpoint for mac closes unexpectedly or that files experience formatting problems when you start the program. This article discusses troubleshooting steps that can help resolve the most common issues when you receive an excel not responding error, excel hangs or freezes when you launch it, or open an excel workbook.
What kind of mac, how much ram, how much diskssd space available. However, one user is running it under excel 2011 on a quite powerful mac he says it is the i5 processor. You might be surprised by how much memory is taken up by files you dont need or operations you dont run. Office 2019 for mac excel 2016 for mac excel for mac 2011 microsoft 365 for mac more. If outlook for mac is running slowly, you might try moving messages out of the inbox or turn off logging. Sep 24, 2016 troubleshooting macos sierra problems sep 24, 2016 428 comments for most users, installing macos sierra has gone without a hitch and theyre left with a troublefree mac that works great with the latest macos system software release. Apart from this there is no third party software loaded. Clean up your computer regularly with a program such as clean my mac 3. Hard reboots involve manually shutting down computer by shutting off the power to the system.
Note if you do not locate this file, excel is using default preferences. At first i was pressing the power button and a screen popped up that says, restart, sleep, cancle and shutdown but it wont let me press anything to them. In fact i dont know if the spinning wheel ever stops. Excel 2016 is still much better than the 2011 version at least. Mar 24, 2020 if your mac turns off, check the power connection at your mac and the power outlet. The adequate answer to that is to update these apps to newer versions.
This is used by many people for carrying various calculations and performing various tasks. Word for mac crashes or quits when you save office microsoft docs. If i load vmware with windows 7 x64 and run excel 2010 in there it scrolls far quicker. There are many occurrences you might be facing the slow responding excel worksheets. Apr 01, 2010 regain control of your mac when it locks up. Let us know if you have anything to add or questions about mac slow startup, leave a comment below. Click report to see more details or send a report to apple. Heres how to shave seconds or minutes off the time it takes for a mac to settle down after turning. The mac os x macos wont shutdown slow shutdown problem. Macbook is frozen and wont turn off macrumors forums. Slow execution of simple vba macro for excel mac 2011 ask question asked 4 years, 9 months ago.
Its that multicolored pinwheel mouse pointer that signifies a temporary delay while your mac tries to figure something out. We had a huge lightning storm roll in a few days ago, and when my 2008. After you push the power button, you see a gray screen or a black screen, depending on the mac you are using while your mac searches for the startup drive, and then a blue screen as your mac loads the files it needs from the startup drive. If after removing and then reinstalling office, the problem continues to occur, go to the next step. Force quit force quit an unresponsive application by either pressing and holding down command option escape, or by clicking the apple and. I recon due to the new layout pc and mac just has to load much more graphics and so on slowing the startup down for both.
Each program of microsoft office 2016 word, excel, powerpoint, v16. It usually takes about 4 seconds for the app to decide that its nonresponsive. If you are an office 365 subscriber, youll also receive the newest features and tools. Microsoft office 2016 very slow to start apple community. This article discusses all macos catalina known issues and solutions you want to know, from hardware or apps that wont work after macos catalina update to data loss, especially mac not booting problems. Nov 11, 2019 once in a while, for no apparent reason, you may encounter the spod spinning pinwheel of death. Apr 20, 2015 remove caches to fix a slow finder in os x 10. If i use office 2003 on a virtual environment running win7 on my brand new mbp17 its lot lot faster.
Its been spinning for 15 mins and i have not saved as yet. Sep 08, 2011 excel will then make a determination on the format of the data based on what gets pasted. Normally, people judge the efficiency of their mac by looking at speed of their mostused apps. When using the trial version of microsoft 365, every time you open an office file, the latest version of the application gets automatically set as the default application for word, excel, or powerpoint in all versions of windows. If you are still having trouble, contact the application developer with specific details to try to resolve the issue. From the menu bar, go to file and click on passwords. Whenever i click on any app in the dock, it takes at least 30 seconds to start. Apple has just released the latest macos catalina 10. Alright, these are the seven possible reasons and fixes for troubleshooting the mac slow startup issue. I have tried everything like the keyboard shut down, the escape and holding the power button down for 10 secs and so on. The following macro runs remarkably slowly in ms excel for mac office 2011. Test in safe mode to see if the problem persists, then restart normally.
Fixes or workarounds for recent issues in excel for mac excel for mac. Calculation speed slow with excel 2011 for mac how can it be improved. After i create the dns connections the help menu in excel only goes to. When an app receives more events than it can process, the window server automatically shows you the spinning ball.
When you save a word for mac document, the application crashes or quits unexpectedly. Word for mac crashes or quits when you save office. Office for mac 2016 all programs slow to launch microsoft. Outlook is running slowly outlook for mac microsoft support. If you are still running the microsoft office for mac 2011 apps thats word, excel, powerpoint, and outlook 2011 you might want to upgrade. As others have suggested your best option is to use the windows version. Run macos mojave alongside macos high sierra, with parallels. Lion spinning wheel during shut down macrumors forums. If the problem continues to occur, quit excel, and restore the file to its original location. These types of problems may occur for one or more of the reasons listed below. Apr 27, 2019 how to force quit an application on a mac.
Troubleshoot office 2011 for mac issues by completely uninstalling before you reinstall. Why is microsoft excel 2016 so slow when internet connected. Microsoft outlook freezing or crashing on macos catalina. One possible reason your mac may be slow out of the blocks is that its trying to launch a slew of programs all at the same time. Excel 2011 is running unbelievably slow on my new imac. Fixes or workarounds for recent issues in word for mac. If youre using a magsafe power adapter, make sure the led on your power adapter is yellow or green. Hopefully in the next version microsoft will add a few more hamsters to wheel inside the spreadsheet engine. Lots of messages in the inbox can slow synchronization with the mail server.
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