An Excel file with data can easily exceed 2.7MB. In a corporation, Excel data analysis files often exceed 12 or even 20 MB. Excel should be able to handle these without difficulty

To efficiently reduce file sizes for distribution, a best strategy is to compress the files, for example, using WinZip. The ZIP file format can often effectively reduce Excel file sizes to 60% less or below

It is in fact not normal for healthy computers to report the out of memory error during file save in Excel. As long as your computer got 128MB RAM or more, I have never seen a situation when Excel cannot handle an Excel file in any way on a healthy computer

Solutions should concentrate on cleaning up the machine. Approaches include

1) Uninstalling and reinstall MS Office
2) Make sure all critical Office and OS patches have been installed
3) You got a clean Windows registry. (There are various registry cleaning utilities.
4) Defragmenting your hard drive to speed up disk access

Regards
Edwin Ta



----- Stuart Bazzard wrote: ----

My problem is two pronged. Firstly, I need to be able to
reduce the saved file size (approx 2.7mb) to facilitate
email distribution and website downloads, without losing
worksheets within my workbook, and without losing
formating (which is fairly extensive)

Secondly, various users have been getting not enough
memory errors. I understand that this is partially because
of Excel's 64mb heap space. What else may be causing these
errors, and how do I prevent them

All advice would be appreciate

Thanks in advance
Stuart Bazzar