From: JLatham on
Isn't it good to see that Charles finally got the MVP recognition he's
deserved for so long?

"Jim Thomlinson" wrote:

> One place to look...
>
> http://www.decisionmodels.com/memlimits.htm
> --
> HTH...
>
> Jim Thomlinson
>
>
> "Stew_Katz" wrote:
>
> > I've got someone trying to work with a 400MB Excel spreadsheet using Office
> > 2007. Excel keeps crashing when trying to modify and then save the file.
> > Outlook goes into Not Responding mode. The file itself doesn't contain all
> > that much data, however, it does contain many high-res images cropped to fit
> > into a cell. The pictures have been compressed, however the file size
> > doesn't change all that much.
> >
> > I was under the impression that the PC itself perhaps didn't have enough RAM
> > memory. Tried working with the file from a PC having 4GB or RAM - same
> > result. I then tried doing the same from a machine with a clean install of
> > Windows 7 with 8GB of RAM - Excel still hangs when trying to save the file.
> >
> > I know there are limits regarding the # of rows/columns in a spreadsheet,
> > but my question her is, is there some sort of limitation in terms of file
> > size for Excel.
> >
> > Thanks for the help!