Comments on: Chart Redrawing Performance of Excel 2003 and 2010

By: Bob Whitlock

Bob Whitlock — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:39:01 +0000

My problem is with the frequent re-writes of a chart with many (but not too many, ~90,000) points. I am using Excel 2007 (not your favorite), and have looked in vain for a setting that would require manual action before the chart will re-draw. As it is, almost any mouse click stimulates a re-draw, which is making it impossible to get anything done with this dataset.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:49:38 +0000

Hui -

Thanks for pointing out the typo. Should be fixed now.

I did not compare 2003 and 2010 with 2007 for two reasons. First, I knew from prior work and from typical use that 2007 was far inferior to 2003, so I didn’t care how badly it compared. Second, since I didn’t care, I wasn’t about to spend time installing 2007 on a real machine to enable valid comparisons. I use 2007 only on VMs, because I don’t want multiple versions of Excel to interact on the same computer. The 2010 test computer is special: since it had crashed, replaced, then been fixed, it was available for testing.

By: Hui...

Hui... — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:31:45 +0000

Jon
Your last 2 charts show labels as 2007, should that be 2010, which is what the text talks about ?

How did 2007 compare ?

Hui…