That's what I thought, too.  I was setting a style on each cell and upgraded to 
POI version 3.0 in order to be able to set a style on a column.  Setting a 
default style for a column did not seem to have an effect on the file size.  Is 
there another way to set styles that is better?

---- Tahir Akhtar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> Look into the per-cell records you are creating. For example you might 
> be creating a unique Cell Format object for each cell although all the 
> cell contain same formatting.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Does anyone have any suggestions on optimizing the file size of an Excel 
> > spreadsheet created with POI?
> >
> > I need to create a spreadsheet with a relatively large amout of data (5-8 
> > full sheets with 10 or so columns) and when I create it with POI it is more 
> > than twice the size as when I create it manually.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Marshall
> >
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