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Compressing an Excel Spreadsheet
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From
11/08/2004 18:36:09
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
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Forum:
Microsoft Office
Category:
Excel
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00932453
Message ID:
00932530
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9
>I have an excel file that is 36 meg. Do you know how to compress the file? When I zip the file it drops to 3meg so I know it can be compressed.
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>I beleive the file has become large due to the constent changes I need to make to the file.
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>Help Please.

I have seen this behaviour - increase in size due to constant changes - in Word and PowerPoint, but not in Excel.

However, I don't have the latest version. I suggest you check whether Excel has a "fast save" option. If it does, turn it off.
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