There are any number of better ways to fix 1, though! 2 occurred to me too, but surely that’s too cynical. It would make Macs look bad more than Excel itself.

There are any number of better ways to fix 1, though! 2 occurred to me too, but surely that’s too cynical. It would make Macs look bad more than Excel itself. Maybe it’s a bit of both. They needed a fix for 1, but they didn’t care about Excel performance at all so someone just spent 20 seconds doing a quick bodge job.