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Is this dataset too big for Excel to handle?

Asked by kfingerman (1012points) April 23rd, 2010

I’ve got about 60000 points. Getting it all in Excel is no problem, but when I start doing more complex functions, like subtotal, it’s running MEGA slow. This is on a Macbook Pro with 4GB RAM. When I tried to chart about 5000 points – x y scatter style – so that I could run some stats, fit a line, find errors, etc, it froze up for real. Am I just pushing up against limits of excel or is there something else wrong?

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dpworkin's avatar

It sounds like your limit is your CPU, not Excel.

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jaytkay's avatar

60,000 rows and how many columns?

Are any of the columns formulas? That can slow things down a lot (and can be cured by copying the formulas and choosing Edit->Past Special->Paste Values).

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