Hi
just disable automatic calculation before doing this ('Tools - Options -
Calculate')

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Regards
Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

Lonnie wrote:
I frequently work with data with 50,000 rows where I delete 10k to
20k rows to reduce the amount of data. When I proceed to delete the
filtered rows, Excel 2003 appears to try and calculate each formula
either before or after it deletes each row. In Excel 97 and 2000 this
process would take a second--now it takes 15 minutes! The rest of my
Co-Workers have noticed the same issue. Is this a known issue in
Office 2003?

Excel is a great product, but this is driving me crazy! Thank you
advance for your help--Lonnie M.