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    Microsoft Excel: Why your spreadsheet is so slow

    by JD SARTAIN Oct 28, 2017 4 minutes

    When your Microsoft Excel spreadsheet slows to a crawl, you can’t help but notice. It may take longer to open and save your files, longer for Excel to calculate your formulas, and longer for the screen to refresh after entering data, or sorting and formatting the cells. System memory is the other issue that relates to Excel’s slowness.

    Slow spreadsheets take longer to manage and, as always, time is money. We’ll show you how to tackle this problem.

    WHEN EXCEL SPREADSHEETS GET TOO BIG

    Excel is capable of creating a very big spreadsheet, but the bigger it gets, the more memory is

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