Why in the world is excel the application of choice? Last time I tried to use it (for much less complicated things than genetics), it choked and became unusable when the filesize exceeded about 6MB. I have yet to encounter a spreadsheet oriented task that isn't better implemented in gnumeric. Maybe we should also shorten all publications so adobe reader can display them without crashing?
I work in excel every day and, if this is true, you needed to spend like 30 seconds on google to find a half dozen solutions to this. Turn off auto-calculations, delete pivots, write fewer vlookups, etc...
It's roughly the equivalent of saying "whenever my C program gets too big the 'core dumps,' whatever that means - a totally useless language"
> Why in the world is excel the application of choice?
Because if it weren't for Excel, most Excel users would have to hire programmers. (And Gnumeric is very obscure, how many non-programmers have heard of it?)
