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The first thing you want to do is verify that you have additional objects on your spreadsheet. The following steps will help you find and delete all of the additional objects in your Excel 2007 worksheet. I could select these visible objects and delete them, however, I would end up missing some of the objects that have been pasted into my sheet. Looking at this image it is evident that some additional shapes were copied into Excel an icon is shown in cell A1 and there are checkboxes in many of the rows in column B.

The data set had 35 rows of data, but only the first few are shown.Īfter pasting my data (and extra objects) into Excel. One step customers can take to avoid unwanted, hidden, and invisible objects in their document is to find and remove the objects after the paste operation as part of their data cleansing process.īelow is an image of part of a data set I copied and pasted into Excel 2007 from a website. These objects (shapes, text boxes, controls, etc.) are often not noticeable to the user after the paste, but can result in slower performance and larger file sizes. Customers often copy and paste this data into Excel from the original source, but unfortunately this can also unintentionally paste many additional objects into the spreadsheet besides the data. When gathering data in Excel it is common to start with information found in a variety of sources, frequently lists or tables located on the Internet. Recently I have noticed a common problem in some of these files that impacts the file’s performance and size: hidden and invisible objects.

I often receive files demonstrating issues customers are experiencing with Excel. Today’s author, Ben Rampson, a Program Manager on the Excel team, talks about cleaning up spreadsheets.