openoffice sheet to excel: grows considerably

When I save an openoffive spreadsheet of say, 27kB as an XP office
Excel sheet, it grows to more tha 2 MB.
Why and what to do about it ?

frgr
Erik

I haven't done this but would imagine that deleting the un-needed
rows/columns would help.

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Don Guillett
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<Erik> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> When I save an openoffive spreadsheet of say, 27kB as an XP office
> Excel sheet, it grows to more tha 2 MB.
> Why and what to do about it ?
>
> frgr
> Erik

Erik,

Try http://www.contextures.com/xlfaqApp.html#Unused

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Earl Kiosterud
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<Erik> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> When I save an openoffive spreadsheet of say, 27kB as an XP office
> Excel sheet, it grows to more tha 2 MB.
> Why and what to do about it ?
>
> frgr
> Erik