Thanks NoSparks Thanks again for providing a solution to the issue. I will update the website to include the "cleaned file". All I have been trying to do is "clean" the file myself, manually and I cant get it to work.

I did the same excluding the macro part and mine came out at 33kb as well

Well it doesn't work for me, and there is no apparent reason. fortunately, the published file is working and is not at all large. Thanks for helping.