Copying all

["Thomas R . Shannon" <tshanno orion it luc edu>]

When I work with spreadsheets, I frequently like to copy all of the 
vaues in the sheet and paste them elsewhere (usually pasting the values 
special).  I noticed that when selecting and copying the whole sheet via 
the button at the origin of the rows and columns, the program slows 
considerably.  I assume that this is because the program indeed copies 
everything, empty cells and all.  Wouldn't it be more efficient to have 
the program define the limits of the data within the sheet and only copy 
those cells?  Or would this be difficult to implement?  I wonder how 
excel and lotus do it?  They don't appear to slow nearly as much when 
this method is used.

Just a thought.

Tom
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