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[Kestrel] · 11-13-2007, 03:05 PM

Hello,

Running Office 2003 on Windows XP (2002 edition, SP2), and working with large (but not excessively so) spreadsheets -- (24 columns, 15,000 rows), and it's taking ~30 minutes for my Compaq nc6320 (3GB RAM, T2400 1.83GHz Intel processor) to load it. I can't imagine this processing hit is within spec -- is there something I need to be looking for/screening, or some way I can boost performance? Excel maxes out at 50% CPU cycles, and I'm a bit at a loss.

The data is relatively low-key -- a few words/numbers per cell (at most 2 sentences), but there's an email and a URL in each one. Is excel perhaps trying to parse or check validity on each one, maybe?

Any help you can offer would be great.
Thanks!

11-13-2007, 03:05 PM	#1 (permalink)
[Kestrel] Registered User Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 1 OS: WinXP	Performance issues with large .xls files Hello, Running Office 2003 on Windows XP (2002 edition, SP2), and working with large (but not excessively so) spreadsheets -- (24 columns, 15,000 rows), and it's taking ~30 minutes for my Compaq nc6320 (3GB RAM, T2400 1.83GHz Intel processor) to load it. I can't imagine this processing hit is within spec -- is there something I need to be looking for/screening, or some way I can boost performance? Excel maxes out at 50% CPU cycles, and I'm a bit at a loss. The data is relatively low-key -- a few words/numbers per cell (at most 2 sentences), but there's an email and a URL in each one. Is excel perhaps trying to parse or check validity on each one, maybe? Any help you can offer would be great. Thanks! Last edited by [Kestrel]; 11-13-2007 at 03:14 PM. Reason: Clarification