Spreadsheet Very Slow To Calculate
Jan 3, 2010
I have a blank workbook that I am just about ready to deploy, but it is very slow to calculate. I know I can manually calculate, but I would rather the workbook just be fast and calculate on its own. The workbook is blank now, but will be used all of 2010 and will ultimately end up being around 20,000 lines. So, I have built in the formulas and conditional formatting into the 20,000 lines now so I don’t have to continually add lines.
So, the questions are…
What part of the workbook is slowing it down?
Here is how the tabs breakdown:
NOTESJust text no formulas
DATA20,000 Rows
1 formula of conditional formatting (Covers entire 20,000 rows and all columns except A)
4 columns with formulas (2 using VLOOKUP, 1 using SUMIF, 1 simple addition)
REPORT2 pivot tables linking to DATA
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