Reducing File Size - Turning VBA into txt?

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Naoki

I'm attempting to reduce the file size of my Excel document, it i
currently at a size of 12.2 Megs. The speed of the document doesn'
really matter, but my company won't be happy to see how big it is
especially considering the ENTIRE file will be replicated each week.
know that the main issue is a number of lengthy macros.

I have read on NUMEROUS matches from googling "excel file size" tha
the main way to reduce your document by up to 50% is to go into VBA
save a module as .txt, delete the module, then bring back the origina
code and save normally. The problem I have is with saving the file a
.txt. I simply do not have the option of SAVE AS, let alone .txt. I
fact, I dont think I have a way to save the VBA code itself, in effec
I'm really just saving the entire excel file, from within VBA?!? Mayb
I'm access VBA wrong, but I typically go into Tools-Macros-Visual Basi
Editor. I am using Office 2k. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong
 
in the vbe in the project explorer, write click on your module entry and
choose export. Or choose delete module and accept the offer to export it
before deleting.
 
i know people probably see this post now, but i'm just curious... why does
the file size increase so much and how is it solved by deleting /
re-importing the code?

thanks

tim

Tom Ogilvy said:
in the vbe in the project explorer, write click on your module entry and
choose export. Or choose delete module and accept the offer to export it
before deleting.
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VBA doesn't clean up after itself very well. Removing the code modules and
saving the file seems to stimulate it to remove unwanted clutter it has
accumulated. In Access, (as an example) they have a compress operation to
deal with this problem. In Excel, they don't.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

Tim said:
i know people probably see this post now, but i'm just curious... why does
the file size increase so much and how is it solved by deleting /
re-importing the code?

thanks

tim
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huh - sounds like you should be able to write a macro to automate that task
(i think i'm being sarcastic!)

thanks though frot he explanation,

tim
 
Writing a macro to export the modules, save the file and reimport them has
been written by several people. The first I was aware of is a free download
from Rob Bovey

http://www.appspro.com

go to the free downloads.
 
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