Yep, those shapes would be objects.

Sometimes people add pictures to the worksheets and those pictures can be pretty
large.

Open your troublesome workbook.
Hit alt-F11 to get to the VBE
hit ctrl-g to see the immediate window
Type this and hit enter:

?activesheet.shapes.count

Swap back to excel and change sheets and do it again. Maybe there are shapes
you can't see???

John Childs wrote:

Dave, thanks for hanging with me. Pardon my ignorance, but is a box formed
using the Autoshape tool called an "object"? If so, yes I do have have about
10 objects on my sheet.

Still two mysteries to me: 1) sometimes I can run a VBA macro and the file
size stays absolutely the same. Then I run it again, and the size increases.
I know I must be doing something different each time, but I haven't narrowed
it down yet.

2) Any clue on why a completed stripped/deleted sheet including macros could
still show a file size of 2.56MB?

Thanks,
John

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

Do you have any objects on any of the worksheets?

Edit|Goto|special|objects
may help you find them.

wrote:

Can't determine why Excel 2003 file size is growing.

Stripped my spreadsheet. Erased all VBA macros. Dumped all temp files.
Last Cell & UsedRange don't appear to be issues. Not tracking changes. No
pivot tables.

And still I wind up with 2.56MB sitting somewhere. I originally posted
recently under subj of "Excel File Shrink". I started with a 3 MB file that
with very little additonal data entry grew to 60MB.

Hopefully somebody out there has an answer before I have to pony up and pay
MS $245 for Pro Level tech support.

Thanks,
John


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