"Andrew" wrote:

.....
After it has been running a while, the difference
in speed between having excel selected or not can be 10 fold. I still
don't understand why the speed changes at all. Is there a way to clear
memory? Will setting local variables to nothing after I am done speed
anything up?

Well .... this is a whole new ball game !

I suggest you might get ideas from a "Windows" discussion group....

Try Control Panel System Advanced Performance Settings

Etc.,


Regards

Robin