Hi everyone,

I was wondering if anyone can tell be a better way to do this. I am working
with financial information in Excel. I have roughly 50 locations and 5 years
history. The locations run done column A with the year in column B. I grouped
them so I only can see 2007 information, but and ungroup any location and see
the prior 5 years data.

What I'm finding is that when using the D-sum function to sum these
locations by year or region, that we I "expand" all of the groupings or close
them, Excel freezes up and it takes about 7 minutes for my program to respond.

I'm only working with about 3000 rows. Any suggestions, or does the D-sum
formula just bog down Excel?

Hi Ben,

Sounds to me like its taking time to crunch. Couple of things to look at
1 Is Calc set to Automatic. If it is set it to Manual, then use <SHIFT F9
to recalc the tab the data is in.
2 Have you looked at Array formulae. This may prove to be a quicker method

John

"Ben" wrote:

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if anyone can tell be a better way to do this. I am working
with financial information in Excel. I have roughly 50 locations and 5 years
history. The locations run done column A with the year in column B. I grouped
them so I only can see 2007 information, but and ungroup any location and see
the prior 5 years data.

What I'm finding is that when using the D-sum function to sum these
locations by year or region, that we I "expand" all of the groupings or close
them, Excel freezes up and it takes about 7 minutes for my program to respond.

I'm only working with about 3000 rows. Any suggestions, or does the D-sum
formula just bog down Excel?

Hi Ben,

Do formulas reference just the rows that have data, or include blank rows as
well? If you were referencing all rows in the worksheet (through 65,000+) -
even if they are mostly empty - that can slow down the processing time.

"Ben" wrote:

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if anyone can tell be a better way to do this. I am working
with financial information in Excel. I have roughly 50 locations and 5 years
history. The locations run done column A with the year in column B. I grouped
them so I only can see 2007 information, but and ungroup any location and see
the prior 5 years data.

What I'm finding is that when using the D-sum function to sum these
locations by year or region, that we I "expand" all of the groupings or close
them, Excel freezes up and it takes about 7 minutes for my program to respond.

I'm only working with about 3000 rows. Any suggestions, or does the D-sum
formula just bog down Excel?