Sounds like the picture may be adding some bulk as well

since you say you didn't copy the picture.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

John wrote in message
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Hi,

I have been given a file that 7.7 meg.

The content is approximately 30 cells x 30 cells. There is some border
formatting but the majority of the cells are empty as it is a timesheet
template.

There is three lines and a small picture in the file.

If I copy all cells over to a new work by pasting values and then pasting
formats & copying over the lines and image, the new file is 66.5K !!!

Any ideas why the same content can have such varying file sizes ???

Thanks
John