Slow Search on large spreadsheets

The progressive search is does not work on any large spreadsheet. If I want to search for 'peanut', Numbers seems to actually perform 5 separate searches: "pe", "a", "n", "u", "t". That is just crazy. If I wanted to search for "pe" or "pean" I would have entered that.
The net effect of this is for a large spreadsheet, say, 1000 rows, the search takes forever, pegging my Macbook Pro CPU (well, only 1 of the CPUs as Number is unfortunately not taking advantage of both!).
Apple, please redesign the search feature to have better performance. I have had to move my spreadsheet back to Excel on my Windows test machine to work on any large spreadsheets.

MB,
It's a well-known issue that large Numbers documents are slow. You can register your complaint with Apple by using the Feedback menu item under Numbers.
Jerry

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