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Data entry too slow even with calc set to manual
Hello Everyone
I am using Excel 2002 and the workbook concerned is 20MB in size. I have set the calculation mode to manual to try to speed up data entry but it doesn't seem to make much difference. Changing the data in a data cell still takes too long. When I press enter after amending data in a cell it can take 2 to 3 seconds before the cell below is selected. For some reason selecting and deselecting cells which contain drop down lists (the drop down lists were inserted using Data Validation and the list is a named range on a hidden sheet) is even more painfully slow (and that's without even changing the data in that cell). Can someone kindly explain why data entry is so slow even when calc mode is set to manual? I would also be grateful to hear what spec of machine would be the best for models of this size on Excel 2002. I am using a 2.80GHz Pentium 4 with 1GB of RAM (Its a Dell Optiplex GX620) and I understood that more RAM wouldn't necessarily make a difference to the performance of this model as it was reaching Excel's limits rather than my PC's limits. Am I wrong? Thanks in advance Stuart |
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