Hello I have been reffered to this forum by the Microsoft Community.
The system I use is
OS Windows 7 64bit and Microsoft Excel 32bit on Windows Server 2003 32 bit.
Below my question regarding the optimization of an excel file.
The old file
Shared xlsx file of 30Mb
3.6million cells
+/- 5Mb of repetitive formulas
+/- 10Mb of conditional format
Slow start save and closing
New file
Shared xlsb file of 9Mb
3.6million cells
replaces formulas with names containing the formula
removed some excess formatting
50-60% faster start and save
closing time same
In the old situation we have other excel files with pivots that extract data from this file.
When I have optimized the file and adjusted the link in the pivots to the binary file, I experienced that the time waiting for the data to be extracted from the binary source file is very very long 10-15min.
Nothing I have read on the net tells that this is an disadvantage of binary files.
So therefore I post this to ask if I do something wrong, should I change something for it to work with binary files?
I really would like to have a solution because the speed advantage working in the source file is very big.
Thanks in advance!
