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As i'm retired long ago Woody so i don't interface with anyone with word processing docs these days. If i am sending something to someone i would rarely know what they preferred, with the exception of my family, so i resort to sending pdf's. Although I do like to create a formal letter and send it v...

Out of curiosity, open the same file and try saving in both .ods format and .xlsx format. Then post the resulting file sizes. Oh ... and also save it as an .xls (the old Excel file format) as a baseline for comparison. OK, here goes ... pmdx = 457.9kB xlsx = 443.3kB xls 97 = 922.1kB Free SoftMaker ...

Woody44 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 5:08 am What was the original file format, and what file format did you save it as after making the edits?

Orig: ods (LibreOffice default)
Saved as: pmdx (SoftMaker's choice)

SuperTech wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2024 8:27 pm Thank you for posting your query. It depends on your current hard drive capacity.

If it's unable to hold your few/100s 457.9 KB size PM files, then yes, you should upgrade it.

Unfortunately i have rather more than a "few/100s" if files on my system SuperTech.

Thank you SuperTech

No Woody, the contents of a cell shrinking to fit more, or less, data.
Sorry i wasn't more explicit.
On LibreOff it's a formatting option under "alignment", titled "shrink to fit".

p.s.
You're not "Woody" from the DC++ hub "Cheers" are you?

Noob asking ... Sorry but i can't find an option to "shrink to fit". Plus the couple of cells i had previously (in LibreOffice) set as shrink to fit have now exploded out of sight. Editors note: Not really "exploded" but i try to keep my mind active and metaphors go some way to h...

Hi, first post here, please be gentle :) I've just moved from LibreOffice which i've used ever since i first learned that OpenOffice wasn't actually fully "open". I opened one of my existing spreadsheets, entered under 20 char's of data (one cell), cleared the contents of another cell and ...