Comments on: Excel 2007′s unresponsive autorecovery feature

By: smlprez

smlprez — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 08:10:22 +0000

I have been having this same problem constantly … very unproductive. I tried to uninstall and reinstall; same problem. 100% CPU had disk utilization during autosave (and I have plenty of both). Does anyone know a fix?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:24:24 +0000

Excel 2007 is BS I lose a lot of hours waiting for it to repsond, switching to open office

By: Dewi

Dewi — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:54:10 +0000

Yeah 2007 excel not-responding again after 2hrs of pivot setting! Sheet! WTH autorecovery is not functioning! ((

By: Di

Di — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:48:26 +0000

Still happening and March 2010 and I lost 2 hours of work! WTF?? My advice is to cut/copy everything in the file immediately if you see the “unresponsive” box come up at the bottom of your screen, paste it in an email or notepad, then get out of Word, shut down, and start over pasting in the old info. Hopefully then you won’t totally lose your work!

By: ART

ART — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:11:22 +0000

Not fixed even in Dec 2009. i am still having problems with autorecovery not working and then WORD freezing on me and then losing all the work. I agree productivity dropped after switching to Office 2007.

By: Nett

Nett — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:43:41 +0000

They still haven’t fixed it in goods shipped June 2009!

By: Vijay

Vijay — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:36:42 +0000

Dear all

Same frustration here, but found 2-3 Ctrl+Break clicks stopped the AutoRecover
option.

Hope this is helpful

Cheers!

By: alex

alex — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:28:17 +0000

it’s not only excel 2007. the auto recover feature in word 2007 also goes into (not responding) land where i almost always need to do a hard stop with the computer because it uses so much resources that i can’t even do the 3-finger solute (CTRL-ALT-DEL). at one client meeting, i had to resort to using Notepad.exe since it was more reliable.

just FYI, running VISTA Home Edition, saving files as 1997-2003 documents. i’ve turned the feature off but it is quite annoying especially with the awful silence from MSFT to an issue that seems to be quite major.

i’ve been thinking about switching to Apple and experiences like these will accelerate that decision.

By: Harry Hermawan

Harry Hermawan — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:29:48 +0000

same problems here, any solution???

By: David

David — Wed, 28 May 2008 04:01:06 +0000

I too have this problem. This is ridiculous. Why do they always rely on the public to test their products???