I have an Excel 2000 spreadsheet which updates itself from the textual
contents of a large number of files at startup. The updating consists
of altering a large number of strings and also a large number of cell
colours. Because of this there is a lot of flickering going on and I
was wondering if there was a way of putting visible updates on hold
temporarily (while the process continues in the background) and then
doing the whole lot in one fell swoop once the content update is
complete.

Thanks a lot in advance to anyone who can help.

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Good Morning Alan,

try

Application.ScreenUpdating=False

as first line of your macro and

Application.ScreenUpdating=True

as last line.

Best

Markus


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I have an Excel 2000 spreadsheet which updates itself
from the textual
contents of a large number of files at startup. The
updating consists
of altering a large number of strings and also a large
number of cell
colours. Because of this there is a lot of flickering
going on and I
was wondering if there was a way of putting visible
updates on hold
temporarily (while the process continues in the
background) and then
doing the whole lot in one fell swoop once the content
update is
complete.

Thanks a lot in advance to anyone who can help.

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