11'' MBA (Late2010) and Excel 2011: Terrible performance.

After 15 years using Windows, I bought my first Mac a little more than a month ago: an 11" MBA (Late2010).
It came with Snow Leopard installed, but since I updated it to Lion as soon as I got home, I don't have any experience with other OSX releases (for comparison sake). Since then I did a clean Lion install because of all the problems (crashes, freezes, hangs, wifi, etc).
The main problem however is Excel's terrible performance, because it's the application I use most for work. In the best case scenario it's slow and goes all the way to unusable slow in some situations. This same problem happens with Word, but I don't use it much. Outlook and Powerpoint work fine.
Is this the expectable performance in this MBA model or is it a software issue? Does it work better with Snow Leopard?
(I'm using Lion 10.7.2 and Office for Mac 2011)

I wonder if I'm having a similar issue. I did a clean reinstall of lion too and found that after I really started working the computer, running iMovie, Mail, Preview and Excel all at once, the machine would slow to a terrible slug-crawl. The busy icon would pop on with every mouse click and nothing much would happen until I managed to get things safed, restart and try again. The same thing would happen again, eventually, but usually I could get my work done.
With some help here, I managed to find a couple of things that were making matters worse, but my performance is still a good bit less snappy than it was with Snow Leopard.
I wonder if going back to Excel 2004 would help. Not sure. Come to think of it, I doubt that 2004 would run, since it probably has some PowerPC code in it. Hmm. Going back to Snow Leopard is a thought, but what fun is that?
I'm sure this post was not much help, but I thought I might let you know that it's not just you. <grin>
David

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