I took a file that was about 300k, opened it in Excel 2003. I copied and
pasted all the data onto a second page so that I could manipulate it without
changing the original data. I hid a couple of columns, sorted the data,
centered a couple of columns, did some global search/replace, gave the sheet
a header & set the margins, paper size and orientation. Then I saved the
file and it was 44MB.

I did nothing that should have created a file this big...no charts, no VBA,
nothing. What's up with this??

Thanks

Hi BW,

See Debra Dalgleish's notes on resetting the used range / file size at:

http://www.contextures.com/xlfaqApp.html#Unused

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Regards,
Norman



"BW" wrote in message
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I took a file that was about 300k, opened it in Excel 2003. I copied and
pasted all the data onto a second page so that I could manipulate it
without changing the original data. I hid a couple of columns, sorted the
data, centered a couple of columns, did some global search/replace, gave
the sheet a header & set the margins, paper size and orientation. Then I
saved the file and it was 44MB.

I did nothing that should have created a file this big...no charts, no
VBA, nothing. What's up with this??

Thanks

That did it. I've used Excel for years with huge files & never had this
problem.

Thanks

BW

"Norman Jones" wrote in message
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Hi BW,

See Debra Dalgleish's notes on resetting the used range / file size at:

http://www.contextures.com/xlfaqApp.html#Unused

---
Regards,
Norman



"BW" wrote in message
...
I took a file that was about 300k, opened it in Excel 2003. I copied and
pasted all the data onto a second page so that I could manipulate it
without changing the original data. I hid a couple of columns, sorted the
data, centered a couple of columns, did some global search/replace, gave
the sheet a header & set the margins, paper size and orientation. Then I
saved the file and it was 44MB.

I did nothing that should have created a file this big...no charts, no
VBA, nothing. What's up with this??

Thanks