diff --git a/sc/inc/table.hxx b/sc/inc/table.hxx
index ee217ba50c82..a4dd113a0cd9 100644
--- a/sc/inc/table.hxx
+++ b/sc/inc/table.hxx
@@ -276,18 +276,11 @@ public:
     ScColumn& CreateColumnIfNotExists( const SCCOL nScCol )
     {
         if ( nScCol >= aCol.size() )
-        {
-            const SCCOL aOldColSize = aCol.size();
-            bool bUseEmptyAttrArray = false;
-            if ( aOldColSize == 0 )
-                bUseEmptyAttrArray = true;
-            aCol.resize( static_cast< size_t >( nScCol + 1 ) );
-            for (SCCOL i = aOldColSize; i <= nScCol; i++)
-                aCol[i].Init( i, nTab, pDocument, bUseEmptyAttrArray );
-
-        }
+            CreateColumnIfNotExistsImpl(nScCol);
         return aCol[nScCol];
     }
+    // out-of-line the cold part of the function
+    void CreateColumnIfNotExistsImpl( const SCCOL nScCol );
     sal_uLong       GetCellCount() const;
     sal_uLong       GetWeightedCount() const;
     sal_uLong       GetWeightedCount(SCROW nStartRow, SCROW nEndRow) const;
diff --git a/sc/source/core/data/table1.cxx b/sc/source/core/data/table1.cxx
index 7c5555c9f679..6fb453807604 100644
--- a/sc/source/core/data/table1.cxx
+++ b/sc/source/core/data/table1.cxx
@@ -2533,4 +2533,12 @@ ScColumnsRange ScTable::GetColumnsRange(SCCOL nColBegin, SCCOL nColEnd) const
                            ScColumnsRange::Iterator( aCol.begin() + nEffEnd));
 }
 
+// out-of-line the cold part of the CreateColumnIfNotExists function
+void ScTable::CreateColumnIfNotExistsImpl( const SCCOL nScCol )
+{
+    const SCCOL aOldColSize = aCol.size();
+    aCol.resize( static_cast< size_t >( nScCol + 1 ) );
+    for (SCCOL i = aOldColSize; i <= nScCol; i++)
+        aCol[i].Init( i, nTab, pDocument, false );
+}
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