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From: 6sigma@polari.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Why is Excel 2.2 is a magnitude (or two) slower than Excel 1.5
Message-ID: <1100@polari.UUCP>
Date: 25 Nov 89 06:08:24 GMT
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Reply-To: 6sigma@.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
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In article <9110@microsoft.UUCP> benw@microsoft.UUCP (Benjamin Waldman) writes:
|There is a bug in Excel 2.2 that causes some database functions to take
|a long time to recalculate.  This bug is fixed in Excel 2.2a, an
|upgrade which is available free to all registered users of Excel 2.2.
|
|Other than this (and contrary to what others have written on the net),
|Excel 2.2 recalculates FASTER than Excel 1.5.

Sorry, but my experience is just the opposite.  I have some fairly large
linked worksheets.  None of them use database functions.  In fact the
only functions they use are IF() and SUM().  However, they loaded and
recalculated significantly (2 to 3 times) slower under Excel 2.2 than 1.5.
Needless to say, I didn't send for the update (I took my worksheets to
a local dealer to try 2.2 before I sent for the update.)