Greetings all,

I am having trouble removing subtotals from spreadsheets. Regardless of how
many or how few line items and/or groups, Excel all but shuts down when I try
to remove subtotals. Any help?

Thanks,
BMercer

How many lines of data are you dealing with? Over about 10,000 and you are in
for a wait. Subtotaling is very slow (Data - SubTotal). Your system will
appear to get stuck when removing (or adding). In your task amanager it will
show not responding, but your CPU usage will be at the max. Go grab a coffee
and wait. A better solution to that many lines of data is a pivot table which
is incredibly much faster.
--
HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"brentm" wrote:

Greetings all,

I am having trouble removing subtotals from spreadsheets. Regardless of how
many or how few line items and/or groups, Excel all but shuts down when I try
to remove subtotals. Any help?

Thanks,
BMercer

Thanks for the help, Jim. The worksheet typically runs an average of 800-900
lines, which is why I didn't think it should "freeze up" and suck up all the
resources to perform the task. It is extremely quick adding in subtotals,
but removing them is the big slow down. I'll try a pivot table, but since
the data is volatile, I am not sure what the best approach will be. I'll
just have to pick a guinea pig and experiment a little. Again, thanks for
the help.

"Jim Thomlinson" wrote:

How many lines of data are you dealing with? Over about 10,000 and you are in
for a wait. Subtotaling is very slow (Data - SubTotal). Your system will
appear to get stuck when removing (or adding). In your task amanager it will
show not responding, but your CPU usage will be at the max. Go grab a coffee
and wait. A better solution to that many lines of data is a pivot table which
is incredibly much faster.
--
HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"brentm" wrote:

Greetings all,

I am having trouble removing subtotals from spreadsheets. Regardless of how
many or how few line items and/or groups, Excel all but shuts down when I try
to remove subtotals. Any help?

Thanks,
BMercer