{"id":457,"date":"2010-03-18T17:23:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T02:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.insidethe.com\/blog\/?p=457"},"modified":"2010-03-18T17:23:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T02:23:40","slug":"excel-2007-insert-column-slowed-by-google-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidethe.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/excel-2007-insert-column-slowed-by-google-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel 2007 Insert Column Slowed by Google Desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"

On a spring afternoon a call came in from a very exasperated client. “Why is my excel coming to a crashing halt? Is 120,000+ rows too many in a spreadsheet? How come it keeps locking up!” He spoke with the unmistakable tone that indicated his computer was about to take flight from his second story window.<\/p>\n

The sheet was only 17MB in size with about 120,000 rows, a few pivot tables, and no complex formulas. Every time he would insert a new empty column on the main sheet Excel would come to a\u00a0screeching\u00a0halt. After about 10 minutes the operation would complete. Turning off automatic calculations and starting excel with the \/safe switch resulted in no change of behavior.<\/p>\n

After some creative Google searches I came across a post about Google Desktop slowing down excel<\/a>. With nothing to to lose Google Desktop was un-installed and miraculously the insert column took 1 second instead of 1o minutes!<\/p>\n

Further examination revealed another blog posting that further explained the\u00a0underlying\u00a0problem<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ironic, isn’t it? Searching Google revealed Google Desktop to be the culprit of the slow down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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