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Default how to unbloat a workbook?

If you want to send it, I will take a look.

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Don Guillett
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"Keith R" wrote in message
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Don- thank you for your reply. The large filesize entry in the link
appears to be related to used/unused cells at the bottom (or right) of
ranges, and I've deleted those rows/columns to no effect.

I'm thinking that I need to somehow export/import each sheet (or something
like that) to clean the workbook, but I don't know enough about the inner
workings of Excel 2003 to know if that will actually help, and whether I
risk breaking links and affecting named ranges by doing so. I don't have a
lot of formatting in my workbook, just a few columns where all cells in
the column have the same conditional formatting.

To adapt your other suggestion (instead of replicating everything in VBA)
I left an example formula in the cell at the top of each column, and
pastespecial/values for the rest of each column, thereby eliminating a lot
of the (repetitive) formulas. If I need to see the formula to know how the
data was calculated, or modify it, I can use that formula cell again. This
made a phenominal difference; the workbook went from 11MB to 7MB with just
that one change!

I think that 7MB is still incredibly large for the amount of data I have
in the workbook- I'd have expected it to be closer to 2MB- so I'm open to
any other suggestions.

Thanks!
Keith

"Don Guillett" wrote in message
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More info here. You probably need to trim past what is needed.
Maybe many of your formulas could also be replaced with macros to leave
just the values?
http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html


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Don Guillett
SalesAid Software

"Keith R" wrote in message
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I have a workbook with about 10 graphs, 10-12 named ranges, and several
worksheets with data (many, many formulas).

The workbook is now 11MB, although I don't believe that I have that much
actual content, so I need to unbloat the workbook. I already used Rob
Boveys magnificent code cleaner, but there isn't that much VBA in the
file so it didn't affect the filesize.

Given that I don't want to mess up the named ranges, graphs source
references, and formulas, what is the safest way to "rebuild" an Excel
workbook? (Excel 2003)

Thanks,
Keith





 
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