On 10/2/20 7:32 AM, sandralo...@vivaldi.net wrote: > Le 2020-10-01 01:13, Tom Williams a écrit : >> Hi! A friend of mine sent me an Excel 365 spreadsheet to get my help to >> add a formula. The spreadsheet is "simple", in that it had about 90 >> rows of data, with only one column being a numeric value. Everything >> else was plain text. I added the formula (to sum the numbers in the one >> numeric column) and when I saved the file, in XLSX format, I noticed the >> file size was smaller. >> >> Here is what I found: >> >> Original file: 22kb >> >> Calc 6.4.6 on Ubuntu 20.04: 16kb >> >> Calc 5.1.6 (I think) on Mint 18.3: 9kb >> >> Why would saving the file in Calc reduce the file size? >> >> Thanks in advance! >> >> Peace... >> >> "The Other" Tom >> >> -- >> /When I leave, I don't know what I'm hoping to find, >> And when I leave, I don't know what I'm leaving behind.../ > > Hello Tom > > A pleasure to have a librarian lol, well already the previous versions > of LibreOffice converted to Ms Office format are necessarily more > dancing in size as you have noticed, I will advise you to publish the > latest version of LibreOffice 7.0.1.2 > > then to come back to your question I don't have a screenshot but I > send you mine which also shows a document at the base ods of 33.6 kiB > converted to xlsx format of 26.9 kiB but when you look at the content > level the xlsx version is in excel zip so compressed at the base where > the xlsx size will be smaller than the ods version in size because it > is compressed at the source. > > I hope to have answered your concern if not please specify your > question to me with screenshots so that I understand well why it is > not a question. > > cordially > Sandra LOUVEZO
Thanks for the reply! I'll try LibreOffice 7 and see what happens. I think I have it installed in a virtual Windows 10 environment I sometimes use. Thanks! Peace... "The Other" Tom -- /When I leave, I don't know what I'm hoping to find, And when I leave, I don't know what I'm leaving behind.../ -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
