Managing File Size in Excel 2007

I recently moved to Excel 2007 from 2003. I created a data entry workbook
for a survey I'm doing for a client. The workbook contains 6 protected
sheets -- a sheet for respondent information and sheets to enter data for 5
plant sites -- and 4 hidden sheets that I use to capture the data in tabular
form for ease of analysis. I would expect the size of a similar instrument
in Excel 2003 to be about 1M -- it's an order of magnitude larger in Excel
2007. That is a real problem: I distribute the surveys by E-mail, and most
of my clients' firewalls block files that large. And as surveys go, this is
a short one for me. Each form is only 3 printed pages (landscape
orientation), and I have done some surveys that are 3 - 5 times longer than
that.

Does anyone have any tips for minimizing the size of Excel 2007 workbooks?

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

Hi

Excel 2007 workbooks will be smaller
I think your usedrange is not correct

See Debra's site for more info
http://www.contextures.com/xlfaqApp.html#Unused


--

Regards Ron de Bruin
http://www.rondebruin.nl/tips.htm




"CJInc" wrote in message ...
I recently moved to Excel 2007 from 2003. I created a data entry workbook
for a survey I'm doing for a client. The workbook contains 6 protected
sheets -- a sheet for respondent information and sheets to enter data for 5
plant sites -- and 4 hidden sheets that I use to capture the data in tabular
form for ease of analysis. I would expect the size of a similar instrument
in Excel 2003 to be about 1M -- it's an order of magnitude larger in Excel
2007. That is a real problem: I distribute the surveys by E-mail, and most
of my clients' firewalls block files that large. And as surveys go, this is
a short one for me. Each form is only 3 printed pages (landscape
orientation), and I have done some surveys that are 3 - 5 times longer than
that.

Does anyone have any tips for minimizing the size of Excel 2007 workbooks?

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

Thanks for your help. Your suggestion helped me identify a problem with a
couple of the hidden worksheets that I'm using to tabulate responses. I
redid those worksheets and the file size dropped dramatically (to about 150
kb).

"Ron de Bruin" wrote:

Hi

Excel 2007 workbooks will be smaller
I think your usedrange is not correct

See Debra's site for more info
http://www.contextures.com/xlfaqApp.html#Unused


--

Regards Ron de Bruin
http://www.rondebruin.nl/tips.htm




"CJInc" wrote in message ...
I recently moved to Excel 2007 from 2003. I created a data entry workbook
for a survey I'm doing for a client. The workbook contains 6 protected
sheets -- a sheet for respondent information and sheets to enter data for 5
plant sites -- and 4 hidden sheets that I use to capture the data in tabular
form for ease of analysis. I would expect the size of a similar instrument
in Excel 2003 to be about 1M -- it's an order of magnitude larger in Excel
2007. That is a real problem: I distribute the surveys by E-mail, and most
of my clients' firewalls block files that large. And as surveys go, this is
a short one for me. Each form is only 3 printed pages (landscape
orientation), and I have done some surveys that are 3 - 5 times longer than
that.

Does anyone have any tips for minimizing the size of Excel 2007 workbooks?

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.