kirkm wrote:
While doing a lot of data manipulation
and additions, linking to Access and so
on I've noticed the size of the .xls file
has almost doubled - compared to a backup
which is almost identical.

Is there a means to compact, or otherwise
get rid of any excess?

Thanks - Kirk

had the same problem. This solution decreased the size of a file from
800 KB to 424 KB

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