Have you tried the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list?
They may have some local leads. I presume this is for Excel for Windows,
and not the Mac?
Scott
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Tal Cohen wrote:
Not an Excel expert, but I would write a perl script that migrates the excel
data into a MySQL database and
I forwarded this on to a friend who knows more Excel than me (not that hard)
He pointed out that Excel does a Recalc on open. He guessed that this
might be why it's taking so long to open, assuming there is a lot of
calculations to do.
He though there was a way to turn this off at one point,
Isn't this what MS Access is for?
If I recall correctly, Excel should have built in ODBC-fu for letting
spreadsheet users directly manipulate the contents of a database.
I'm not sure how portable the spreadsheet is after that, but if it's
already at 50 megs, chances are they're not exactly
