My Excel exports are much bigger than other exports. What is going on ?
Here is a doc on unicode support in Office XP : http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xpreskit/html/intd02.asp Even if Unicode was disabled, here is a specific bug that can cause doubling of Excel file size : http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q293828 Note the fix for this is to resave the file. Excel exports use HTML formats which adds a lot of overhead to the data and is most acute when the size of the data in the individual fields is generally less than the size of the formatting commands for display.
