Increased file size

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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?
 
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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