File size increase

I am working with a pretty simple file of 500 rows and 11 columns. I began
noticing today that it took a very long time to save. When I checked the
properties of the file it shows that it is 2,444 k . That is much larger
than most all my exel files with even more information in them. The
sophisticated thing I had done was to set up conditional formatting for all
the cells with data in them. Experimenting and removing that did not
decrease the file size. Where else should I look to decrease the file size?
What could have happened?

Thank you

Bill

Bill

Hit CTRL + END to see where Excel takes you.

Could be Excel has over-estimated your used range.

For help on re-setting, see Debra Dalgleish's site.

http://www.contextures.on.ca/xlfaqApp.html#Unused


Gord Dibben Excel MVP


On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:07:01 -0800, "Bill Clark"
<BillClark@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I am working with a pretty simple file of 500 rows and 11 columns. I began
>noticing today that it took a very long time to save. When I checked the
>properties of the file it shows that it is 2,444 k . That is much larger
>than most all my exel files with even more information in them. The
>sophisticated thing I had done was to set up conditional formatting for all
>the cells with data in them. Experimenting and removing that did not
>decrease the file size. Where else should I look to decrease the file size?
>What could have happened?
>
>Thank you
>
>Bill