Delay when using Clear filters button on Ribbon vs Clearing filters on Individual Columns

c_wag03

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Hello,

I am having an issue in a particular workbook where I have a filtered table, and if I click on the filter drop down on each individual column to clear one or more filters, the result is basically instant. But if I click the "Clear" filters button on the Data tab of the ribbon to clear all filters in the table without having to click each column individually, the workbook locks up giving me the busy mouse pointer (spinning blue circle) and Excel goes into (not responding) mode. I haven't been patient enough to sit and wait and see how long it would actually take to resolve (assuming it would eventually), but I have given up after maybe 5 to 10 minutes on several occasions.

The strange thing is, visually, it looks like the filters do get cleared almost immediately (you can visually see the all rows become visible again), but it seems to be trying to process or do something else after that (no idea what).

The table in question is linked to a Query sourced from Power Query (from a SQL database), but it is not exceptionally large, ~30k rows (at least in my world I wouldn't consider that exceptionally large).

I thought I had the problem narrowed down to a custom function that I was using in one column that was set to be Volatile. But I have removed that in my trouble shooting, and still have the problem. There are now no calculations at all in the table, it is just the data coming from the SQL query.

I can't fathom why clearing each individual filter works instantly, but it hangs when clearing all filters. Perhaps something to do with the Power Query link...but even if it was trying to re-run the SQL query or something (don't know why it would, but just a thought), it still shouldn't take long. Refreshing the data from the source SQL query takes maybe 30 seconds when do that.

I am on Office 365, Excel 2016 MSO (16.0.8201.2193) 64-bit, on Windows 7 Enterprise, 64-bit
 

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Just to provide a little more info. I have been trying more things to diagnose, and the issue definitely seems to be isolate to tables that are linked to power query queries. But I still have no idea why it is behaving that way....
 
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