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John Croson John Croson is offline
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Default VLOOKUP hang-time...

I seem to be having an issue with VLOOKUP and mucho data.

My Excel spreadsheet opens and asks for user input as to the location
of a .CSV file that is in the vacinity of 6500+ records. It adds this
as a new sheet and uses the VLOOKUP function to process the records
into human readable form: (From the macro that copies the formula down
the column)

ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 =
"=IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(RC[-1],ZipCodes!R2C2:R33108C3,2,FALSE))," & """NOT
FOUND""" & ",VLOOKUP(RC[-1],ZipCodes!R2C2:R33108C3,2,FALSE))"

The VLOOKUP has to reference a zipcode sheet that contains
approximately 32,000 zipcodes/state references.

CPU usage pegs out at 100% and Excel freezes. Am I asking too much
from it? Should I move to Access?

Thanks for any pointers...

JC