Find while typing is a killer on a large spreadsheet

I'm a casual user of Numbers '09 (2.0.4) on Mac OS X 10.6.4 on a Mac Pro.
I just tried using Find on a 2-sheet, 10,000+ row spreadsheet of products. I gave up after a several attempts because of the dreadful performance. Numbers starts searching as I type. That would be a good feature IF it can keep up with my typing. However, Numbers winds up echoing my typing o ... n ... e ... ... c ... h ... a ... r ... a ... c ... t ... e ... r ... ... a ... t ... ... a ... ... t ... i ... m ... e. And if I type ahead, it drops occasional characters, resulting in a bad search string. Attempting to correct the search string gets into the same glacial performance.
I looked for a preference to disable dynamic Find -- no such luck.

Ward Clark wrote:
I've used the type-Select-Copy-n-Paste technique to address problems like this. In Numbers, an empty cell could be the temporary work area, using Cut instead of Copy.
Of course, this is not a real solution because a sequence of Finds to narrow the search results gets REALLY tedious.
I wasn't aware that Spotlight had this problem because I long ago switched to HoudahSpot, a powerful (some might say baroque) interface to Spotlight-based searching -- see http://www.houdah.com/houdahSpot/
HoudahSpot waits for the first search string to be entered before beginning the search. After that, searching is incremental until you clear the field or push the Stop button -- an elegant approach that Numbers could mimic.
I will not comment your message, just say that Apple Engineers will not see it.
If you really want to pass it to them, use the dedicated channel :
_Go to "Provide Pages Feedback" in the "Pages" menu_, describe what you wish.
Then, cross your fingers, and wait _at least_ for iWork'11
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 8 septembre 2010 17:42:44

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