Bad update?

We have 28 computers using office 2013. After latest update (15.0.4745.1002) excel is very very very slow when filtering. In Excel lower bar it is written "Calculating 4 processors 0%". Users without latest office 2013 update or with office 2010 / 2007 are working without any problems.

I even made a test: computer without latest update was tested and it was OK. I made the update and an d the problem appeared.

Unfortunately system restore is not correcting the issue as it doesn't revert to previous version of office.

Anyone with same problems? Any suggestions?

Thank You

August 27th, 2015 1:27am

Hi lulianCst,

Thanks for your posting, I have tested with my local environment (Windows 10 & Excel 2013 15.0.4745.1002), but did not reproduce this issue. We also have not received the similar issue on our forum yet. Thus, I can't confirm this issue if is really related to updates.

I recommend you try to remove the update to test:

August 11, 2015, update for Office

MS15-081: Description of the security update for Excel 2013: August 11, 2015

Then, we can check the event log to check if there was any error message logged when you perform the filter.

Please let me know the result. Thanks.

Regards,

George Zhao
TechNet Community Support

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August 28th, 2015 2:08am

Hi;

for your info
we're experiencing the same behavior since this update.

Best regards

Sander

August 28th, 2015 2:52am

Hi,

I'm also having the same problem. Can barely do anything in Excel at the moment.

BR

Simon

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August 28th, 2015 5:45am

We also have the same issue on multiple Windows 7 computers after updating in Aug 2015. The only way we can fix the issue is to do a system restore to before the Windows updates were installed. 
September 1st, 2015 7:02pm

Hi All,

We have realized this issue, but we need more information to text it. If any one have the same issue, please share us the following info:

  • Windows operation system
  • Office installation methodMSI or C2R.
  • The operation that caused this issue(Such as filter and so on).

We'll re-build the environment to test and submit this issue with internal channel.

Regards,

George Zhao
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September 2nd, 2015 5:30am

We have found that removing the CONCATENATE function or switching Calculate Options to Manual fixes the issue with (15.0.4745.1002). This is not a solution but it might help someone in a pinch. 

We are disabling automatic updates on our Excel user computers until Microsoft releases a fix. On the computers that already have the bad update we are installing an older version of Excel or we are using the above temporary fix. 

September 2nd, 2015 11:17am

  • Windows operation system: Windows 7 Pro 64 bit and 32 bit
  • Office installation methodoffice.com/setup with standard Windows updates to Excel (15.0.4745.1002)
  • The operation that caused this issue: using filters on worksheet with 60,000 rows and about 45 columns. However, the use of the CONCATENATE function or "&" function seems to cause the issue for us. Could be an issue with other functions but removing those functions seem to solve the issue with filtering. We have verified this issue on about 8 computers most are HP's but three are custom built PC's. 
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September 2nd, 2015 11:53am

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