Anyone made an Excel VBA LZW-compression?

Felix Atagong

Felix Atagong

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You heard (or better: read) the question!

JOB 1:
Open an Excel file that has a lot of repeating data.
Let a LZW-compress-macro work on it.
Save the Excel sheet (that should be smaller now than the original).

JOB2:
Open the Excel file with the LZW-compressed data.
Let a LZW-decompress-macro work on it.
The decompressed data should be exactly the same as our first Excel sheet.

Not that I need it for anything or that it would ever come in handy.
I'm just curious if this would or could work...
 

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