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- From: hurley@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Brian Hurley)
- Subject: Re: Excel 4 Users Beware ! - Do not use many worksheets
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.084833.27029@spdc.ti.com>
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- References: <rBwXrAnJBh107h@eosvcr.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 08:48:33 GMT
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- In article <rBwXrAnJBh107h@eosvcr.wimsey.bc.ca> aew@eosvcr.wimsey.bc.ca writes:
- >Dear Excel 4 Users,
- >
- >I thought I'd warn you about an Excel feature that just burned me
- >quite badly.
- >
- >I thought the Workbook concept was really useful. So I started to
- >use it and create bound worksheets.
- >
- >After I hit about 20 worksheets (for a relatively small financial
- >model) things started to get weird. It complains alot about not
- >enough memory. It starts drawing things incorrectly and it has
- >trouble saving the workbook in a reasonable amount of time.
- >
- >The problem is that the worksheets in a workbook take up huge
- >numbers of Windows systems resources. Each worksheet take about
- >3% of your GDI resources.
- >
- >So if you run about 75% GDI free normally, and Excel takes up around
- >12% GDI just to start up and Windows does not run well under 15% GDI
- >then the practical limit is 16 worksheets. I am now at 20 sheets.
- >I have found nowhere in the manual or on-line help that says this is
- >the practical limit. I sure wish I had known !!
- >
- >Unfortunatly the GDI systems resources in Windows is fixed. You can
- >not improve it by adding memory or by doing ANYTHING.
- >
- >The only way to resolve my problem is to combine the worksheets and keep the
- >number below 16. This will not be easy.
-
- I understand and I usually try to keep it 10 or less myself. I've ran out of
- FSR's with only 8 large sheets once. Now I use the linking more and don't run
- into the problem as much. It takes MUCH less FSR's to link to another sheet
- than it does to keep the other sheet loaded.
-
-
- >
- >I think Excel 4 is a good product but this aspect of it is very very
- >poorly designed.
-
- It's still the best out there!!
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