I've just been sent a spreadsheet which is, essentially, empty (a few column headings on some empty tables on a few tabs, that's it), and it's coming in at nearly 4mb. Ah-ha, I thought, I bet it's the old "thousands of empty rows/columns" thing. So, doing a quick Ctrl-End, and I'm proved right, the last cell is in ColXFD(!)
The way I used to sort this was to select all the rogue columns/rows, right click, Delete, then immediately save, close and reopen. That doesn't seem to work any more, any ideas?
Copy and paste the info you want to a new blank sheet
A quick macro to delete empty rows / cols is what I'd use....
Perchy has said what I was going to say. I always go for easiest option so just C&P what you need and do away with all the guff.
Just keep the old version in case this approach throws some critical formula out of the window.
Clear contents should work
it’s coming in at nearly 4mb.
That's kids stuff. When I first learned some basic Excel stuff, I tried to get really clever with conditionals between different sheets (basically trying to use Excel to do something that needed a proper database). Then it crashed and crashed my PC. I rebooted and tried to reopen it but it all crashed again. Third time, I realized that I'd created a 4GB Excel workbook and 32 bit Windows could not handle it.
what panther said.
I once tried to populate a 100 cols by 50,000 row matrix with formulas, and the file ballooned to 100GB. Needless to say it was tad slow after that.