File Size Bloat (serious) with Excel-XP ?

B

Bob

Is there a known bloat problem with Excel-XP saving earlier formats ?

A friend of mine has been having a problem with serious bloat of
an Excel file under XP. After inserting some email links (about
30) into a very small spreadsheet and saving as excel-95 format
(which should actually just trash the links) his file size hit 1.5mb.

I took his 1.5mb file, saved it to text, imported it and recreated
the links in Excel-2000. With the exact same content that he had,
I got a file size of under 50K for both excel-2000 format (links
preserved) or in excel-95 format (links get trashed).

So, something is wrong with his version of Excel... any known
issues ?

Thanks,
 
P

Peo Sjoblom

I believe it is because he probably saved in dual format, probably better to
keep 2 different formats of the same file, one for 5/95 and one for 97-2003.
He probably selected save as Excel 97-2002 & 5.0/95, ask him to select
Excel 5.0/95 and for the regular just save as default (Microsoft Excel
Workbook *.xls)
 
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