Interesting. And how weird that I got a 21K XLS after inserting a 48K BMP!
I have no idea what's going on<g

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| When I insert even a very small picture file (e.g., a 6 kB .tif file) into
an
| Excel Worksheet, the Excel file size increases to a much greater degree
(by
| about 400kB).
| This becomes a real problem when I used 10 or more picture files.
| What can I do to avoid this?
| I have tried other picture formats (.jpg, .png, .wmf), with similar
results.
| I am using Excel 2003, running on Windows XP.
| I would appreciate any suggestions.
|