----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Brooke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 1:39 AM Subject: [vbhelp] Excel
> > > Hi folks, > Following the success of my recent questions (thanks again) I though > I would try something different. Somebody has to give you all > something to do! > > I'm using VB6 to drive Excel 2002 to open a series of workbooks, > each with a single worksheet consisting of on average 1000 rows > (although some have up to 3000) each of 6 columns. As each sheet is > opened the program has to check all the cells in 3 columns looking > for particular values. > > It uses .Range to get the number of rows in the sheet and uses that > in a FOR loop to access each row, on each row it uses .Cell to > access the 3 columns looking for these values. > > It takes *forever*! Typically a 1000 row sheet takes almost 15 > seconds to process (and that's on a 3Ghz dual P4 with 1Gb ram) and > opening the full 20 workbooks takes what seems like a lifetime! > > Can anyone suggest a (much) faster way of doing this? > > With thanks > Ian Turn off Auto Update / Auto Calculate in excel it has been years, so I am not sure of the name, but the performance increase will be impressive Matt . ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/k7folB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> '// ======================================================= Rules : http://ReliableAnswers.com/List/Rules.asp Home : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vbHelp/ ======================================================= Post : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Join : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leave : [EMAIL PROTECTED] '// ======================================================= Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
