Spinning ball during cut and paste?

Any ideas on why I am finding Numbers so slow. Whenever I try and copy and paste data from one cell to another I get the spinning beachball of death. I am working to my laptops harddrive and have no physical disks attached. Double clicking a cell can take 4 or 5 secs to action.
Don't seem to have any problem within other iWork apps or other programs.
Any ideas?
Thanks

With 200 cells, I'm surprised.
I wish to be able to look at the document to try to understand.
You may attach it to amail and sent them to my maibox.
Click my blue name to get my address.
I know what confidentiality means
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 19 juin 2009 15:55:34)

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May you give more details about what is wrong with your dates ?
M…oSoft products aren't allowed on my machines but I use LibreOffice which is a clone of Office.
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Selecting all does not help - the issue is I need a table within an incoming email to be moved to excel, edited and then pasted back into a new email. "Select All" picks up the email headers, signatures, any messages around the table etc so that doesn't work. Also, as pointed out above Excel doesn't have a select all feature to get the tables back into the body of an email.
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So, I am afraid you will have to switch between the Photos album and the Events view to move your photos around.

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LordHawks wrote:
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