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From: trottiers@yvax.byu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: RE: Excel 2.2/Mac SE/2.5MB/macOS6.0.4
Message-ID: <1735trottiers@yvax.byu.edu>
Date: 5 Nov 90 06:49:52 GMT
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TW>         I have recently upgraded a Mac SE from 1MB to 2.5MB of RAM.
TW> Prior to the upgrade Excel documents opened relatively quick but
TW> now after the memory upgrade there is a noticable degradation in
TW> speed of opening. Also the operation of "deleting" a row or column
TW> takes an unbelievable amount of time. The problem occurs whether
TW> you run in

It looks to me like Excel is reading a much larger area as its "active" area
than it needs to.  Same thing happened to me once.  At some point I
positioned the cell pointer at a cell that was way off my spreadsheet and
then Excel thought that it needed to keep track of everything in between.
When deleting a cell it has to figure out what is in each of those extra
cells (even if it's nothing) so that it can shift them.  This looks to me to
be the most likely problem.  I'm not sure how to fix it other than selecting
the active area of your worksheet, cutting it, and pasting to a new
worksheet.  This will mess up your column widths but everything else should
cut and paste okay.  Good luck.

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