Can anybody tell me why this excel file is huge? To me it seems like
there's nothing in it...but it weighs in at a couple of megabytes.

http://www.artlum.com/huge.zip

(Zipped down to about 120k...)

I searched this group and tried everything I found. I did the CTRL-End
thing, it puts me at cell A1.

I selected the whole sheet and did "Edit-Delete" - no difference.

I exported it as an older file type, it got smaller.... so... I re-
imported it... and it got big again!

There's no macros, no named ranges, nothing.

So why's it so big and how can I fix it?

I've got a file here with a dozen pages in it and they all have this
same problem, the file is 24 megs and takes a couple of minutes to
load. I tried copying the data into a new file but the problem seems
to come right along with it.

The file above is what I get if I reduce it to a single page and
delete all the data on that page...