XLSB format caused my file size to increase

jworkman7

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When I have a particularly massive project on a shared drive which needs to run faster and more efficiently on lower quality machines at my company's various branches, I usually save the file in XLSB format to share, because this reduces the the file size, so it can download or be sent via email more efficiently. However today, I had a project and saved it as XLSB, but the file instead increased in size by 1 MB. Not a huge deal, but in the past this usually cuts file size down by about 50% and decreases formula processing times substantially.

Any idea what might be causing this?
 
The .xlsx/.xlsb file formats are essentially zip files so they are already compressed. That is why they are smaller.
 
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