Excel Export Large File Size

When I export a matrix report to Excel (65 rows by 228 columns, about 15000
cells) the file size exceeds 15mb.
As the Excel file is sent out daily as an e-mail attachment in an SRSS
subscription I receive a lot of complaints about this.
Other export formats for the same report such as Web archive are tiny, but
the subscribers insist on Excel.
I have applied the latest service packs to SQL Server 2005.
Any tips/workarounds would be appreciated.
Regards
Ian OlsenOn Mar 22, 7:47 am, Wrighty <wrig...@.donotspam.com> wrote:
> When I export a matrix report to Excel (65 rows by 228 columns, about 15000
> cells) the file size exceeds 15mb.
> As the Excel file is sent out daily as an e-mail attachment in an SRSS
> subscription I receive a lot of complaints about this.
> Other export formats for the same report such as Web archive are tiny, but
> the subscribers insist on Excel.
> I have applied the latest service packs to SQL Server 2005.
> Any tips/workarounds would be appreciated.
> Regards
> Ian Olsen
The only other options are to use a compression tool to zip the file
before sending it (most likely, not a snapshot option, but a custom
one) or to export to CSV instead (which might save a little file size
but you loose formatting). The only other thing would be to have the
users save a web archive, etc as an excel file. Hope this helps.
Regards,
Enrique Martinez
Sr. SQL Server Developer