Not sure if increasing the size of your SSD will make that much difference here. MS Excel is more CPU & memory bound than storage bound.
With that said, your system is lean for memory (4 GB) which sadly you can't increase so Widows does what it can to leverage the SSD storage for virtual RAM. So one of the things I would look at is see how full the SSD is I would leave at a minimum of 1/3 of the space free. See if cleaning the system of junk you can squeeze a bit more performance. If you are able to see some improvement than maybe a bigger SSD will help.
If that didn't help then the CPU maybe over taxed with to many processes. Run Performance Monitor to see whats using CPU & RAM resources. You could have some spyware or other nasty running in background or the system was loaded up with Bloatware/Freeware (a big problem in regular Windows systems).
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In years past I had to create custom Windows OS installers to strip out all of the junk the manufactures would add to their OS installations. Think it like all of the Adware we see when hitting a news site on the web like USAToday which slows your system and wastes your bandwidth downloading it all when you only wanted to raw news feed.
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In years past I had to create custom Windows OS installers to strip out all of the junk the manufactures would add to their OS installations. Think it like all of the Adware we see when hitting a news site on the web like USAToday which slows your system and wastes your bandwidth downloading it all when you only wanted to see was the raw news feed.
Here's the IFIXIT guide to replace the SSD: [guide|60383|Microsoft Surface Pro 4 SSD Drive Replacement] and heres a bit more on the SSD your system has and possible replacement units: [http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/products/flash-storage/client-ssd|Samsung M.2 NVMe x4 SSD - SM961]
Not sure if increasing the size of your SSD will make that much difference here. MS Excel is more CPU & memory bound than storage bound.
With that said, your system is lean for memory (4 GB) which sadly you can't increase so Widows does what it can to leverage the SSD storage for virtual RAM. So one of the things I would look at is see how full the SSD is I would leave at a minimum of 1/3 of the space free. See if cleaning the system of junk you can squeeze a bit more performance. If you are able to see some improvement than maybe a bigger SSD will help.
If that didn't help then the CPU maybe over taxed with to many processes. Run Performance Monitor to see whats using CPU & RAM resources. You could have some spyware or other nasty running in background or the system was loaded up with Bloatware/Freeware (a big problem in regular Windows systems).
In years past I had to create custom Windows OS installers to strip out all of the junk the manufactures would add to their OS installations. Think it like all of the Adware we see when hitting a news site on the web like USAToday which slows your system and wastes your bandwidth downloading it all when you only wanted to raw news feed.
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Here's the IFIXIT guide to replace the SSD: [https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Microsoft+Surface+Pro+4+SSD+Drive+Replacement/60383|Microsoft Surface Pro 4 SSD Drive Replacement] and heres a bit more on the SSD your system has and possible replacement units: [http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/products/flash-storage/client-ssd|Samsung M.2 NVMe SSD - SM961/SM951]
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Here's the IFIXIT guide to replace the SSD: [guide|60383|Microsoft Surface Pro 4 SSD Drive Replacement] and heres a bit more on the SSD your system has and possible replacement units: [http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/products/flash-storage/client-ssd|Samsung M.2 NVMe x4 SSD - SM961]
Not sure if increasing the size of your SSD will make that much difference here. MS Excel is more CPU & memory bound than storage bound.
With that said, your system is lean for memory (4 GB) which sadly you can't increase so Widows does what it can to leverage the SSD storage for virtual RAM. So one of the things I would look at is see how full the SSD is I would leave at a minimum of 1/3 of the space free. See if cleaning the system of junk you can squeeze a bit more performance. If you are able to see some improvement than maybe a bigger SSD will help.
If that didn't help then the CPU maybe over taxed with to many processes. Run Performance Monitor to see whats using CPU & RAM resources. You could have some spyware or other nasty running in background or the system was loaded up with Bloatware/Freeware (a big problem in regular Windows systems).
In years past I had to create custom Windows OS installers to strip out all of the junk the manufactures would add to their OS installations. Think it like all of the Adware we see when hitting a news site on the web like USAToday which slows your system and wastes your bandwidth downloading it all when you only wanted to raw news feed.
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Here's the IFIXIT guide to replace the SSD: [https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Microsoft+Surface+Pro+4+SSD+Drive+Replacement/60383|Microsoft Surface Pro 4 SSD Drive Replacement] and heres a bit more on the SSD your system has and possible replacement units: [http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/products/flash-storage/client-ssd|Samsung M.2 NVMe SSD - SM961/SM951]
Not sure if increasing the size of your SSD will make that much difference here. MS Excel is more CPU & memory bound than storage bound.
With that said, your system is lean for memory (4 GB) which sadly you can't increase so Widows does what it can to leverage the SSD storage for virtual RAM. So one of the things I would look at is see how full the SSD is I would leave at a minimum of 1/3 of the space free. See if cleaning the system of junk you can squeeze a bit more performance. If you are able to see some improvement than maybe a bigger SSD will help.
If that didn't help then the CPU maybe over taxed with to many processes. Run Performance Monitor to see whats using CPU & RAM resources. You could have some spyware or other nasty running in background or the system was loaded up with Bloatware/Freeware (a big problem in regular Windows systems).
In years past I had to create custom Windows OS installers to strip out all of the junk the manufactures would add to their OS installations. Think it like all of the Adware we see when hitting a news site on the web like USAToday which slows your system and wastes your bandwidth downloading it all when you only wanted to raw news feed.