XLS to MHT bloat

[Gordon Price]

I habe a 165 KB XLS file that when converted to an MHT is 11,921 KB. Yes,
almost TWO orders of magnitude increase! Is this right? Is this a joke? Is
MHT not really a file format that can be used? I was hoping to put some XLS
stuff on the intranet and still be able to edit, sort, that kind of thing.
Any suggestions?

Gordon

 

[Jim Rech]

HTML is inherently bloated compared to binary formats but that is
extraordinary. I have had little experience using this format but for
comparison I just now saved a 500K file with interactiviity and it went to
3.8G (almost 8 times bigger). What's in your workbook that caused your
expansion I have no idea.

Quite apart from the bloat issue that's a good question. I've found the
spreadsheet component (the thingy that mimics Excel on a web page) to be
sufficiently different from Excel and of such poor performance with larger
files to make it, ahhh, not a good option.

Have you found your changes saved when saved from within IE? Mine aren't.