Reduce Size of Excel when Exporting from Power BI Report Builder

[Panos84]

Hi

I have a PowerBI Report Builder Paginated Report that generates an excel file.

How can I please reduce the size of the excel file?

[Panos84]

Hi

Thanks for the suggestion, but I m hoping for another solution. Resaving the excel file is something that we already knew in my organization and it is what we do at the minute. I am hoping for a solution that my customer will not have to go through the manual process of resaving excel 🙂

[v-rzhou-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Panos84 

Please refer to this offical blog: Sizes of Excel 2003 (.xls) Files

When reports are first exported and saved to Excel 2003, they do not benefit from the file optimization that Excel automatically applies to its *.xls workbook files. The larger file size can cause problems for e-mail subscriptions and attachments. To reduce the size of the *.xls files for exported reports, open the *.xls files and then resave the workbooks. Resaving the workbooks typically reduces their file sizes by 40 to 50 percent.

Best Regards,
Rico Zhou

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