I have a file that will be distributed to about 400 people that
displays data that they will need to filter and print out. The
worksheet contains about 36000 records. I am using an autofilter, but
my problem is that the autofilter takes about 3 seconds to apply, but
about 4 minutes to take off. Each time a user autofilters, they
should get about 100 records.

Manual Calculation is turned on, but I can't figure out how to make
the removal of the filter any faster.

I am using Excel 2003, and we are not currently using Sharepoint
globally, so the only way I know of to communicate the data to each
person is by distributing the Excel file.

I'm surprised that manual calculation didn't help.

But I usually just hit the escape key to interrupt the calculation.

But if you have formulas that you need to trust, you may want to all the
calculation to complete before you trust the results.

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I have a file that will be distributed to about 400 people that
displays data that they will need to filter and print out. The
worksheet contains about 36000 records. I am using an autofilter, but
my problem is that the autofilter takes about 3 seconds to apply, but
about 4 minutes to take off. Each time a user autofilters, they
should get about 100 records.

Manual Calculation is turned on, but I can't figure out how to make
the removal of the filter any faster.

I am using Excel 2003, and we are not currently using Sharepoint
globally, so the only way I know of to communicate the data to each
person is by distributing the Excel file.

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Dave Peterson