File sharing

We are currently using excel as an interim booking system with approximately
8 people sharing the excel spreadsheet.
As the number of fields increases the excel spreadsheet slows down
considerably and sometines crashes causing us to loose data, is Microsoft
excel (2002) supposed to be shared between this many users?

Yes but you need to buy some newer computers.

"Kelly" wrote:

> We are currently using excel as an interim booking system with approximately
> 8 people sharing the excel spreadsheet.
> As the number of fields increases the excel spreadsheet slows down
> considerably and sometines crashes causing us to loose data, is Microsoft
> excel (2002) supposed to be shared between this many users?
>

Mike
thank you for your response - but our computers are not the problem

"Mike" wrote:

> Yes but you need to buy some newer computers.
>
> "Kelly" wrote:
>
> > We are currently using excel as an interim booking system with approximately
> > 8 people sharing the excel spreadsheet.
> > As the number of fields increases the excel spreadsheet slows down
> > considerably and sometines crashes causing us to loose data, is Microsoft
> > excel (2002) supposed to be shared between this many users?
> >

I have been having the same problem for a couple years.
We have 4 computers sharing one file with macros.
I don't know the reason, but this is what I do to minimize the slow
down/crashing:
Tools-Share Workbook- under the Advanced tab, I don't keep a history. That
helps, but the file still increases in size and slows down. Once a day, I
make sure everyone is not in the file but myself, then I go to Tools- Share
Workbook, Editing tab- I uncheck the allow changes button, save the file
then go back into the editing tab then reshare the file by re-checking the
button. That keeps the file to approx 700k. By the end of each day, the file
grows to about 3mb with very little data entered.
Hope this helps.

Joe

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> Mike
> thank you for your response - but our computers are not the problem
>
> "Mike" wrote:
>
>> Yes but you need to buy some newer computers.
>>
>> "Kelly" wrote:
>>
>> > We are currently using excel as an interim booking system with
>> > approximately
>> > 8 people sharing the excel spreadsheet.
>> > As the number of fields increases the excel spreadsheet slows down
>> > considerably and sometines crashes causing us to loose data, is
>> > Microsoft
>> > excel (2002) supposed to be shared between this many users?
>> >