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Two large, linked Excel files take 30 minutes to save, except in VMWare environment

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I support some tax consultants who love to use Excel when they should probably be using Access. Anyway, they have created two Excel files, A and B. File B has cells linked to file A. File A is 27 MB and file B is 16 MB. One worksheet has roughly 1 million rows and there is another worksheet doing a…

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Fix for: Two large, linked Excel files take 30 minutes to save, except in VMWare environment

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I suggest unchecking the "Save External Link Values" option under: Excel Options -> Advanced -> When Calculating This Workbook: I think that this should solve your problem. Also doing some research on this topic pointed out to me that this problem o…

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