Is there any way to turn off recalculation in Numbers? (The program is far too slow!)

Hi there,
I'm finding that Numbers is really (really!) bogging down because I have a large number of smaller tables (approx. 20) that I'm trying to link to a main spreadsheet. I've read online that Numbers will slow down because it recalculates all of the data every time you change a cell value. I really need to be able to use the system I've spent tons of time setting up, and the last step is to extract info from the individual data tables and have it display in the main spreadsheet. Can anybody help me figure out how to make this work?! Right now, there's no way I can complete the linking, as there's at least a 3-5 second lag/pause every time I try to enter a new cell value (and often, it's much longer!).
Thanks so much!

Barry wrote:
One very efficient brake of numbers is the use of multiple footer rows. You may be able to obtain a noticeable speed-up with a redesign of your document to eliminate as many footer rows as possible.
Given my experience, the most efficient brakes are column headers, the infamous columns A, B, C, D and E when they are defined as headers.
An efficient way to fasten a document is to move tables doing only calculations in a sheet different than the one in which we insert datas.
Using this tip with scripts, when it may apply, often divide the task duration by ten (yes, by ten).
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 4 juillet 2011 22:36:56 iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8
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