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Old 01-28-2019, 01:19 PM
Dual Trace Dual Trace is offline Help with pasting screen shots in Excel Windows 10 Help with pasting screen shots in Excel Office 2010
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I intend to collect hundreds of screen shots and place them in Excel because it is very easy to scroll through them later on. I will gather around 50 per day. However after placing few tens of them, the file size gets huge and Excel displays a "Not responding" message when saving the file. After a while the message disappears and the file is saved. However I fear that I will soon reach a point when it will eventually crash.

My question is what if anything can be done to reduce the size of the images? I tried placing them first in Paint and reducing them from 100 to 50% and then adding them to Excel, but the Excel file size is only slightly smaller. So this way doesn't work.

The screen shots I collect contain numbers, so not a great deal of resolution is needed. To give you an idea a screen shot contains around 50 rows and 15 columns with numbers up to 7 digits.

I use Office 2010 and my Excel file currently reached 701Mb. I tried saving the file as a 2003 Excel file and the size went down to 35Mb, but when I work with this file it also displays the Not responding message when saving, but it only lasts few seconds and then it's saved. It will soon reach a point when it won't work anymore.

In case this can help, I use the Snipping tool to collect the screen shots I need.

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Old 01-29-2019, 09:12 AM
Logit Logit is offline Help with pasting screen shots in Excel Windows 10 Help with pasting screen shots in Excel Office 2007
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Generally GIF format is smaller than JPG or other formats.

However, you are storing the images in the workbook itself. Why not change your project to save the images to a folder first. Then create a macro that will display the images one at a time. This will prevent Excel from 'freezing'.
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Old 01-29-2019, 11:45 AM
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I use the snipping tool to grab the screen shots and then CTRL+C and CTRL+V to place them in Excel. This works pretty quickly. I do around 50 per day in maybe 20 min. If I need to first save each as a gif, this would imply many time consuming steps.
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Old 01-31-2019, 10:32 PM
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If you want to save a selection to a folder you should be able to use one of these suggestions.

John Peltier at
https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-...lls-jpg-2.html
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https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-...g-chart-2.html
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Stephen Bullen is mentioned also. I have used his code but that was quite a few years ago.
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