Huge excel sheet taking too long to update links or calculate formulae

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Published on 2009-08-20T19:33:49Z Indexed on 2010/05/11 21:55 UTC
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I have Excel sheet with 5000 rows and columns till AY (size 12MB). Except for the first 6 columns, rest contain either vlookups or formulae. All the vlookups are in separate Excel sheet. I have changed the Excel setting to manually update the links and calculate formulae. Now everytime I try to update the links, either the Excel sheet hangs or it takes something like 15 minutes. Any ideas on how I can get it done quickly.

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