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felixws
Aug 13, 2020Copper Contributor
Excel inflated file size caused by PivotTables - How to reduce file size after removing all Pivots?
Hi all, I was working on a quite large Excel model and performed some ad-hoc data analyses with the integrated Pivot Tables and Charts feature. This Increased the file size from ~7MB to ~12.5MB a...
SergeiBaklan
Aug 13, 2020Diamond Contributor
In general how to manipulate with Pivot Caches is here https://www.myonlinetraininghub.com/excel-pivot-cache, but if you remove PivotTables caches also shall be removed. Perhaps something else. You may try Clear All on currently empty regions.
felixws
Aug 18, 2020Copper Contributor
Thank you for the advice to Clear All empty regions, it definitely helped decreasing the file size!
- SergeiBaklanAug 19, 2020Diamond Contributor
felixws , you are welcome