Monthly Archives: May 2015

Excel ForceFullCalculation: Trading off Editing speed vs Calculation speed

A recent post at Stack Overflow reminded me that I have not posted about the pros and cons of Excel’s Workbook.ForceFullCalculation property. So what does Workbook.ForceFullCalculation do? The simple answer is that it switches off Excel’s smart recalculation algorithm, so … Continue reading

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Timing Excel Formula Calculations

I have written a couple of posts previously about the methodology of timing Excel calculations: A Quantum of Time – measuring time accurately The XIPS Challenge – how fast does Excel calculate? But rather than focus exclusively on how to … Continue reading

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