You can't (unless you upgrade to XL 2007) - you'll just have to
simplify the formatting applied in your workbook.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Aug 13, 12:41*am, LenL wrote:
I have a fairly long Excel program (5 megabytes) that analyzes splits in a
swim meet. I am getting "too many formats". How can I get Excel 2003 to
increase the number of formats it will accept?