file size question

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excelnut1954

This was a situation I've seen a couple time in Excel. A worksheet with
multiple sheets of data has for example a size of 5MB. All but one of
the sheets are deleted, but the file size stays near the same size. A
co-worker noticed this when she tried to email the file as an
attachment internally, and the size of the email actually showed to be
near 7MB. (of course, I told her about zipping these files 1st next
time).

Does anyone know of situations where great portions of data has been
deleted from a large workbook, but the size of the file remains about
the same?

I've seen some years ago when our company converted from Lotus to
Excel, a workbook we converted over had this problem. I couldn't figure
it out, but the file size seemed to change to a realistic size later on
it's own.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks,
J.O.
 

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