Dear Statalist,

I have been an avid reader of the list for years and it has helped me tremendously in so many situations. I know that people are not crazy about providing feedback on user-written commands. Still, I was wondering whether anybody had any suggestions for me. I am not looking for a solution (I don't think there is a simple solution), rather for suggestions for optimisation.

I like using tabout (SSC) to create nicely formatted tables in excel right from Stata. However, for some projects I have to create a lot of descriptive statistics in tables (sometimes 100+ across multiple sheets), that ideally should be in one output file, otherwise I am afraid things get messy and version control is difficult.

tabout works great for me generally. However, once I start adding several tables on multiple sheets in Excel combining loops with the tabout, append option (let's say, 30+ tables), it starts slowing down massively.

Has anybody else experienced similar issues when creating many tables using tabout, append? Does anybody have any suggestions for improved performance?