Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!oddjob!ncar!boulder!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!itsgw!batcomputer!cornell!moore From: moore@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Doug Moore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: MS Excel recalculations Message-ID: <17102@cornell.UUCP> Date: 12 May 88 04:19:27 GMT Sender: nobody@cornell.UUCP Reply-To: moore@cs.cornell.edu (Doug Moore) Distribution: comp Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY Lines: 16 I don't own Excel, but advise someone who does. So I don't have the manual. Excel 1.04 is being used to maintain a database and keep some statistics derived from it. The database has 7 or 8 columns of input and 4 columns calculated from the other 7 or 8. The daily routine is (a) Insert 10 or so new lines into the database (b) Wait, while each of the 4 columns is recalculated, to no purpose, for each of the entries already in the database. (c) Add the new entries, etc. How can we avoid step (b)? How does Excel decide when something must be recalculated? Suggestions? Or is this what one deserves for buying from MSoft? Doug Moore (moore@svax.cs.cornell.edu)