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nokycard
Copper Contributor
Nov 15, 2021

reducing size of worksheet

  • The size of a scroll bar indicates the proportional amount of the used area of the sheet that is visible in the window.

  • My scrollbar indicates I have very many more active columns on my worksheet than I am using.  This makes my scroll bar not useful for scrolling through the actual size of my worksheet (about 20 columns)
  • I have tried selecting all of the columns to the right that are not being used in my worksheet and deleting all of them, but this has not solved the problem.
  • Suggestions please?

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  • chahine's avatar
    chahine
    Iron Contributor
    use ctrl+end to see where your end cell is, then delete any blank cells
    2. Reduce conditional formatting (try to avoid it unless necessary)
    3. reduce formulas (if you can use values)
    4. if using pivot table , dont save a copy of your data with pivot table, as it is already stored in pivot cache
  • Detlef_Lewin's avatar
    Detlef_Lewin
    Silver Contributor

    nokycard 

    Make sure that you delete the columns and not just the cell contents.

    Close the workbook and save it.

    Open the workbook and it should be fine.

     

    • nokycard's avatar
      nokycard
      Copper Contributor

       

      Thanks for tip.  I thought I had already tried that, but guess I missed some step.

       

      Was careful to follow your suggestion in detail, and it worked.  Thx again for your help.

       

      Detlef_Lewin 

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