#719 Runs impossibly slowly - Can't do anything without waiting several minutes

[Anonymous]

Not sure what category this qualifies as, but here goes.

I actually have 2 problems, possibly related (will post them separately if asked)...
1) I've heard great things about this character sheet program thing, and really would like to try it. However, whenever I open the file and get it to actually open (see below), it runs impossibly slowly, to the point where I've decided it's not worth trying anymore. It takes about a minute to uncheck a single box on the "Source Books" tab. Any other operation takes a similarly long time to complete, no matter how simple it seems it should be. Is this normal?

Specs and other potentially useful information:
OS: Win8.1(64)
Office: 2007
Version: 7.4.0.1
RAM: 8G
Processor Speed: 2.40GHz
Severity: I manually crash excel just to get it to stop thinking, it takes so long. Can't use the program.
Attempted solutions: only program opened after fresh start-up (still unusably slow)

2) Every time I open the file, I get an error about "unreadable content" and am asked if I want to fix it. I say "yes", it thinks for a couple minutes, and I end up with a "usable" file (see question 1 above)...but when I save said "recovered" version, I still get the same error upon opening.

[Anonymous]

I have a similar problem when trying to load or save a character.

[Anonymous]

I have both of these problems, as well as I am not able to save my characters properly. After I click save and about ten minutes has gone by, a workbook that I cant do anything with pops up with compatibility errors. I am also unable to click on these as anything attached to the project and excel freezes for anywhere between 5-15 minutes.

[Anonymous]

Same problem here! I will try the 64bits version of excel...

[Anonymous]

Wow. Has this even been investigated? I just reposted this as a Bug because I want to be able to use this!