[BBLISA] Know any (real) MS Excel experts?

[Daniel Hagerty]

Edward Ned Harvey <bblisa2 at nedharvey.com> writes:

> Hey, I'm looking for a rare breed of human being.  The problem is simple to
> describe - I know a location where they have a very important huge
> spreadsheet.  Something like 50 megs, and when they open it up, it might
> take 45 minutes to open.

    I'm also no excel expert, but the scale of data you're talking
about is well into "wrong tool for the job" territory.  Databases are
actually designed to do this; excel isn't.