"Timer" required??

rabarnes

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Hi

I have written a spreadsheet which is linked into a datasource and I have set the data to automatically update when the spreadsheet is opened. However my data is fairly large and the spreadsheet contains a lot of formulae, meaning it takes up to 10 seconds to update and calculate the cells. This doesn't sound a lot but when waiting for something, it is!

The likes of you and me (who know how Excel works) are intellegent enough to realise that there is a toolbar at the bottom of the screen which tells you that the datasource is being connected to, along with a small "globe" logo telling you that the data is being updated. However the people who use the spreadsheet (my sales team) do not have as good an understanding of Excel as you or I do, so they don't realise that things are happening in the background and get frustrated waiting for the spreadsheet to open.

I see two possible solutions to this problem which I'm hoping someone can give me the answer to:

1. Create some sort of "Timer" which pops up in the middle of the screen replicating what is being done in the toolbar at the bottom. This way the user will know that something is happening.

Or

2. Find some way of speeding up the updating of data / calculating of cells.

Can anyone help??

Thanks

Rowan
 

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