Hi

make sure that Google Search isn't still installed.
Also, turn off Automatic Calculation whilst you Delete, then turn it back
on again afterwards
Formulas tabCalculation optionsManual
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Regards
Roger Govier

"Oxo" wrote in message
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I have databases that normally have approximately 30 columns and 40,000
rows
of data, but sometimes go up to about 90,000 rows. It's all plain data, no
formulas, no cells linked to this data (except a pivot table in another
tab,
that is not set to automatically update).

When I have a monthly update, I delete the previous data and then paste in
the new data. Sometimes, with no apparent pattern, EXCEL hangs when I try
to
delete the data. I do this by selecting all the data and hitting the
delete
key. I don't want to delete rows or columns because I don't want to mess
up
the pivot table settings, which I use to analyze the data each month.

Today, I timed 7 minutes waiting for the screen to refresh and finally
used
Task Manager to close EXCEL (not responding). After multiple tries, I was
finally able to delete the old data, 5,000 - 10,000 rows at a time. Each
delete took a long time. I even tried pasting a block of blank cells over
the
data - no improvement.

I even rebooted and tried with only EXCEL running. No change. Last month
it
worked fine. Since then I had installed WINDOWS Search and Google gadgets.
I
uninstalled WINDOWS Search and turned off Google gadgets and rebooted. No
improvement.

Any ideas why this is happening and what i can do?