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- From: christie@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Chris Tham)
- Subject: Re: Excel 4 Users Beware ! - Do not use many worksheets
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.092216.16025@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
- Sender: news@ucc.su.OZ.AU
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- References: <rBwXrAnJBh107h@eosvcr.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 09:22:16 GMT
- Lines: 21
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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.
-
- I had the same problem. Increasing FILES= in CONFIG.SYS helps, along
- with closing any unnecessary applications and minimizing Program Manager.
- I managed to get to 27 worksheets in my workbook before I seriously ran
- into trouble. I have since re-written the workbook to be a single
- worksheet using outlining to hide the information I didn't want.
-
- christie
-