Monthly Archives: January 2014

Threading and Hyper-Threading: Optimizing Excel Calculation speed by changing the number of threads

Posted on January 29, 2014 by fastexcel

I have just implemented measuring multi-threaded calculation efficiency in FastExcel V3 Profile Workbook: so I thought it would be interesting to see the effect on calculation speed of varying the number of threads, and switching off hyper-threading. Hyperthreading Almost all … Continue reading →

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Inserting a UDF and Launching the Function Wizard from VBA

Posted on January 26, 2014 by fastexcel

In a previous post I suggested you could do this by entering the function using VBA into the selected cell using a comma as the argument to the function, for example =LISTDISTINCTS.SUM(,) , and then calling the function wizard using … Continue reading →

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2013 in review

Posted on January 8, 2014 by fastexcel

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 85,000 times in 2013. If it were an exhibit at … Continue reading →

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