Hi Andrew, I tried to duplicate this with a spreadsheet with over 220 rows but did not get the same result. Granted, your sheet may be more complicated than mine with more formulas and calculations. Have you tried turning Cursor Tracking off (fn-VO-shift-f3 when navigating through the sheet? When using this method, you will need to do an extra step to bring focus back together but it does make the navigation experience smoother.
With Cursor Tracking Off, there are two basic methods to navigate: 1. Navigate up or down, right or left either with VO keys down (lock them down with VO-semi-colon if you wish) then bring things back together with fn-VO-cmd-f4. 2. Use up/down and right/left arrows to navigate around then toggle Cursor Tracking back on to bring focus back together. You'll need to navigate one cell away then back again to force the focus together. Having Cursor Tracking off also allows the fast movement to the end of your spreadsheet without causing things to go busy. See if this helps you at all. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2012-11-18, at 4:56 AM, Andrew Lamanche <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Listers, > > I've searched the archives of googlegroups for the answer but failed to find > one. > > My spreadsheet is now over 100 rows long and it is growing. Increasingly, > Numbers has become extremely sluggish, so much so that it is driving me mad. > The constant "busy busy" message, the sluggishness with which I can move from > cell to cell is making me think that I won't be able to use Numbers any more > for the purpose of working with long spreadsheet tables. Is there another > solution? Does anyone else experience the same issue? I've switched off > autocomplete text in cells and it has initially improved the issue but the > longer my spreadsheet becomes, the more impossible it is to use Numbers. I've > tried Tables application but it is even worse so I have to ditch it. Also, > with my spreadsheet having so many rows, it takes ages to arrow up and down > the columns to get to the end of the table in order to enter more data. Adn > And again, when arrowing up and down, Numbers is very slow and eventually > Voiceover gets stuck on one particular cell and keeps repeating its content > over and over again unless I arrow up and down very very slowly. > > I'd welcome any suggestions. I'd be reluctant to have to install Fusion but > if this is the only option, I may have to. But then I'd have to buy Ms Office > which is very expensive. > > In case it helps, I run Mountain Lion on Macbook Air, 2.13 GHz Intel Core 2 > Duo, 4GB RAM, 256 GB solid drive. Does Numbers perform better on newer > machines? I understand I can't add more RAM to my macbook air. It's late 2010 > and I have the maximum RAM possible. > > Many thanks for any suggestions > > Andrew > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
