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Hi There,

I am trying to reduce the size of my file to around the 2MB mark. I have
followed all the advice i could find on the subject on this site, but still
can't get it below 4.5MB. I have tried:

1.CTRL+SHIFT+END and removing empty areas
2. Pasting all data as values, so there isn't a single formula in the file
3. Saving the file as .html. Although this did help with what was showing on
screen, it removed the group formatting which i need to keep in the file.

I have also minimised as much of the formatting as i can to still be able to
publish it.

Is there anything i am missing which might be able to reduce this file to
the magical emailable file size?

Thanks in advance
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Hi There,

I am trying to reduce the size of my file to around the 2MB mark. I have
followed all the advice i could find on the subject on this site, but still
can't get it below 4.5MB. I have tried:

1.CTRL+SHIFT+END and removing empty areas
2. Pasting all data as values, so there isn't a single formula in the file
3. Saving the file as .html. Although this did help with what was showing on
screen, it removed the group formatting which i need to keep in the file.

I have also minimised as much of the formatting as i can to still be able to
publish it.

Is there anything i am missing which might be able to reduce this file to
the magical emailable file size?

Thanks in advance


wat amount of data is there in your file? num of tabs and rows in each
tab?
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Hi Guys, thanks for both responses.

I don't have any pivots or graphics in the file, just a large amount of
data. It is split between 5 tabs each with about 1200 rows and 40 odd
columns.

appreciate this is a large file, but really need to reduce it somehow
(without zipping it)

Jake

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On Jul 30, 1:40 pm, shakey1181
wrote:
Hi There,

I am trying to reduce the size of my file to around the 2MB mark. I have
followed all the advice i could find on the subject on this site, but still
can't get it below 4.5MB. I have tried:

1.CTRL+SHIFT+END and removing empty areas
2. Pasting all data as values, so there isn't a single formula in the file
3. Saving the file as .html. Although this did help with what was showing on
screen, it removed the group formatting which i need to keep in the file.

I have also minimised as much of the formatting as i can to still be able to
publish it.

Is there anything i am missing which might be able to reduce this file to
the magical emailable file size?

Thanks in advance


wat amount of data is there in your file? num of tabs and rows in each
tab?

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On Jul 30, 3:07*pm, shakey1181
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Hi Guys, thanks for both responses.

I don't have any pivots or graphics in the file, just a large amount of
data. It is split between 5 tabs each with about 1200 rows and 40 odd
columns.

appreciate this is a large file, but really need to reduce it somehow
(without zipping it)

Jake



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On Jul 30, 1:40 pm, shakey1181
wrote:
Hi There,


I am trying to reduce the size of my file to around the 2MB mark. I have
followed all the advice i could find on the subject on this site, but still
can't get it below 4.5MB. I have tried:


1.CTRL+SHIFT+END and removing empty areas
2. Pasting all data as values, so there isn't a single formula in the file
3. Saving the file as .html. Although this did help with what was showing on
screen, it removed the group formatting which i need to keep in the file.


I have also minimised as much of the formatting as i can to still be able to
publish it.


Is there anything i am missing which might be able to reduce this file to
the magical emailable file size?


Thanks in advance


wat amount of data is there in your file? num of tabs and rows in each
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Dude! I hope u don't believe somebody can come up with some black
magic tricks here. If u need to reduce the size, zip it. If you need
to send the data to somebody without zip, fax it man! or may be upload
it some common location
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1. Embedded graphics can take lots of storage, remove them
2. Pivot tables can take lots of storage, remove them or copy/pastespecial
values the tables onto themselves
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"shakey1181" wrote:

Hi There,

I am trying to reduce the size of my file to around the 2MB mark. I have
followed all the advice i could find on the subject on this site, but still
can't get it below 4.5MB. I have tried:

1.CTRL+SHIFT+END and removing empty areas
2. Pasting all data as values, so there isn't a single formula in the file
3. Saving the file as .html. Although this did help with what was showing on
screen, it removed the group formatting which i need to keep in the file.

I have also minimised as much of the formatting as i can to still be able to
publish it.

Is there anything i am missing which might be able to reduce this file to
the magical emailable file size?

Thanks in advance



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Removing means "deleting" not just clearing contents.

After deleting empty rows and columns on each sheet you must Save before the
used range is reset.

In some older versions you had to save/close then re-open to see changes.


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1.CTRL+SHIFT+END and removing empty areas


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