RE: [users] Large spreadsheets

2007-02-05 Thread Kirill S. Palagin
> -Original Message- > From: Will Kramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 3:37 AM > > Is it practical to have a spreadsheet with more than say a > million cells (on a fast computer with 256 mb of ram)? I have > 3 rows by 40 columns of data that I want to

Re: [users] Large spreadsheets

2007-02-05 Thread Andis Lazdinsh
Hi! I have the same experience with large spreadsheets. If it comes close to 1 Mb (some 50 Mb in .xls), than it's impossible to work with calc. I'm linux user at work, so my solution is to break large spreadsheets into smaller ones and connect them with links, and of course delete every piece

Re: [users] Large spreadsheets

2007-02-06 Thread NSP Ciudad Madero
Is it practical to have a spreadsheet with more than say a million cells (on a fast computer with 256 mb of ram)? I have 3 rows by 40 columns of data that I want to do a couple of calculations for on each row and then sort the rows. Is one of calc, gnumeric, excel more efficient at this?

Re: [users] Large spreadsheets

2007-02-06 Thread Robin Laing
Kirill S. Palagin wrote: -Original Message- From: Will Kramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 3:37 AM Is it practical to have a spreadsheet with more than say a million cells (on a fast computer with 256 mb of ram)? I have 3 rows by 40 columns of data t

Re: [users] Large spreadsheets

2007-02-06 Thread Paul
In my experience, apart from load/save times, I've not found a _large_ difference between calc and Excel (I've not used gnumeric). I've just tried a 39000R x 40C spreadsheet and time differences between sorting and calculations (on all rows) wasn't that great. I must say however that the PC used