2 points. 1. 102MB XLS file slows down the Beta to a crawl. Like 5 minutes to
open it. Is this unusual or par for the course? And I have a DuoCore!

2. When saving as an XLSX file it's size is only 1.5MB. Is this common? How
does it do that?

Victor
This is Excel Beta version: 12.0.4017.1004
My system is:
OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name xxxxxxxxxxx
System Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard
System Model HP Pavilion dv8000
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 14 Stepping 8 GenuineIntel ~1828 Mhz
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 14 Stepping 8 GenuineIntel ~1828 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Hewlett-Packard F.13, 5/10/2006
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2765 (xpsp.050928-1517)"
User Name xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Time Zone Pacific Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 2,048.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 1.29 GB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 3.85 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys