Increased file size

[Dave]

Hiya

I've recently been upgraded at work to XP and have noticed some large
jumps in file sizes.

For instance, I have an Excel file, made up of just 4 worksheets with
alpha-numerical information, with some formulas. Before XP, it totalled
no more than 2MB.

Each month, I re-save the file with that month as it's new name, do some
work on it, and that's it until the following month. The first time I
did this after my upgrade, I found this file had leapt to 8MB, with
probably less info now on the 4 sheets. The next time I re-saved it, it
had gone up to 13MB! Yet, if I split the 4 worksheets into their own
file, guess what? They total about 2MB, just like my original pre-XP file.

Colleagues have noticed it too, with other Excel files and also Word
documents.

Does XP do something to increase file sizes?

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[Thomas Wendell]

It's not XP doing it it's Office. When you make changes in Excel/Word etc.
it saves the original AND the changes. And no, I don't know how to change
that behavior...

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"Dave" > kirjoitti viestissä
...
> Hiya
>
> I've recently been upgraded at work to XP and have noticed some large
> jumps in file sizes.
>
> For instance, I have an Excel file, made up of just 4 worksheets with
> alpha-numerical information, with some formulas. Before XP, it totalled
> no more than 2MB.
>
> Each month, I re-save the file with that month as it's new name, do some
> work on it, and that's it until the following month. The first time I
> did this after my upgrade, I found this file had leapt to 8MB, with
> probably less info now on the 4 sheets. The next time I re-saved it, it
> had gone up to 13MB! Yet, if I split the 4 worksheets into their own
> file, guess what? They total about 2MB, just like my original pre-XP
file.
>
> Colleagues have noticed it too, with other Excel files and also Word
> documents.
>
> Does XP do something to increase file sizes?
>
> --
> TIA
> Da\/e
> Please reply to group