XL2000: Excel4 Macro Runs Slowly When Excel Is in the Background

When you run a macro that uses MS Excel 4.0 Macro (XLM) code, it takes more time to be completed than you expect.

This behavior occurs when you switch to another program (or task) in your operating system, so that Microsoft Excel is no longer running as the foreground task.

NOTE: Some Excel add-ins, such as Solver, use XLM code internally. If you create a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro that calls one of these add-ins, you may also experience these symptoms.

To resolve this problem, obtain Microsoft Office 2000 Service Release 1/1a (SR-1/SR-1a).

To obtain SR-1/SR-1a, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1/SR-1a.