Excel files open too slow with 32,000 rows

We have an excel file at work that has like 32,000 rows and it opens
real slow. Is there a way to compact the size and open it faster?
They are employee files of attendance. Please help. In Access there is
a compact command to shrink the file size and speed it up. Anything
similar ? BTW I hear other organization have sizes 10-200x bigger and
are much faster. How ?

I have a large file full of formulae. I found that copying the formulae
down each column again the spreadsheet loaded and re-calculated much
quicker. This spreadsheet gets sorted again and again. I can only assume
that recalculation is in a certain order which, when the cells are put in a
different order, makes the load / recalculate more difficult and, therefore,
longer.

I would be grateful if anyone could confirm this theory. I would like to
know out of idle curiosity if nothing else.

Regards.

Bill Ridgeway
Computer Solutions
"Andy Louie" wrote in message
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We have an excel file at work that has like 32,000 rows and it opens
real slow. Is there a way to compact the size and open it faster?
They are employee files of attendance. Please help. In Access there is
a compact command to shrink the file size and speed it up. Anything
similar ? BTW I hear other organization have sizes 10-200x bigger and
are much faster. How ?

Move it to Access?

I dont think other organizations have files with 320,000 rows since Excel only
has 64k (or there abouts) rows in each spread sheet.

You are very possibly moving toward spreadsheet corruption.


"Andy Louie" wrote in message
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: We have an excel file at work that has like 32,000 rows and it opens
: real slow. Is there a way to compact the size and open it faster?
: They are employee files of attendance. Please help. In Access there is
: a compact command to shrink the file size and speed it up. Anything
: similar ? BTW I hear other organization have sizes 10-200x bigger and
: are much faster. How ?