MS Excel is slow??

Hi All,
I use MS Excel 2004 an it acting slower than the MS Excel 2001.
Yesterday I unstall the MS Office 2004 Application an install it again. Now it's a little snappier than before but not the speed I like that the Excel Application acts.
* Scrolling in the work sheet is slow
** Selecting multiple field while dragging the mouse over the sheet is is slow. The field are far behind my mouse pointer, so I have to wait until the selecting field while dragging a cope up with my mouse pointer.
Any idea about this behavior ??
Dimaxum

* Scrolling in the work sheet is slow
** Selecting multiple field while dragging the mouse
over the sheet is is slow. The field are far behind
my mouse pointer, so I have to wait until the
selecting field while dragging a cope up with my
mouse pointer.
I had the same problem. I trashed 'LCC Scroll Enhancer.ape' located in /Library/Application Enhancers and now Excel works fine. Apparently it's part of the Logitech Control Center software used for the mouse. I haven't noticed a difference in performance, as a result.
Hope this helps!
eMac Mac OS X (10.4.8) 640 MB, 700 MHz PowerPC G4

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