Monday, March 19, 2012

Need Answer PLS - excel export file size changed on re-save

I have a report that ran and returns a large amount a data. When I export the report to excel it takes 3 minutes to export. The file size when I open the xls file is 24.1MB. I choose save as and give it another name ... then open the xls I just saved and the size is 9.79MB. Why is the file size different on the re-saved file than the originally exported file? This was reported by a user and I didnt believe the file size would change until I tried it myself ...sorry ... forgot to add that I am running RS2005 sp1|||If you have a lot of

string values in the report that can be represented as single byte strings,

that’s probably where Excel is making a difference. In Reporting Services we

always write strings as 2-byte Unicode, but Excel will always try to compress to

single byte when possible.

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