HI all ,

OK ... help here please ... you know when you write a visual basic programme
in Excel , and you want to take some information from "Sheet1" and do some
calculations with it and put it into "Sheet2" for example .. but you want to
do this calculation thousnads of times ... well what you see when you run it
is Excel flicking from Sheet1 to Sheet2 all the time ... is there any way of
turning that off ... like turning off that ... if you know what I mean ...
because it must slow the programme down having to display each sheet every
time ..

I am looking for a command like "AutoUpdate Off " does that exist ??

Thanks

Use:
Application.screenupdating=false



Francisco Mariscal
fcomariscal at hotmail dot com


-----Original Message-----
HI all ,

OK ... help here please ... you know when you write a
visual basic programme
in Excel , and you want to take some information
from "Sheet1" and do some
calculations with it and put it into "Sheet2" for
example .. but you want to
do this calculation thousnads of times ... well what you
see when you run it
is Excel flicking from Sheet1 to Sheet2 all the time ...
is there any way of
turning that off ... like turning off that ... if you
know what I mean ...
because it must slow the programme down having to display
each sheet every
time ..

I am looking for a command like "AutoUpdate Off " does
that exist ??

Thanks



.

yep you can turn off the updating

put the following at the beginning of your code

Application.ScreenUpdating = False
there is no need to set it to true as this is done automatically when macro
finishes.

you may also want to use the following if your spreadsheets contain lots of
formulas

application.Calculation = xlCalculationManual
this stops excel recalculating formulas each time it changes something -
however you do need to set this back to automatic at the end of the macro

application.Calculation = xlCalculationAutomatic