Have you considered not using xls as a format to store 1.5GB.
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Yes, but it was a request of my boss
Tell them to use a proper database
Their boss probably doesn’t care since it opened in excel for them.
Good luck with that.
Call him special for even entertaining a 1.5GB XLS file as a real option for anything.
That’s totally nuts. Normalize the data and use Access if you have absolutely no other options - or use SQL Server Express if you want to be cheap about it and stay in the MSFT ecosystem.
Microsoft never really meant for XLS files to get that big. Can't you use a "saner" approach, like CSV?
Yeah, you can make it work by finding one of your it guys and dumping it in a real database. Spreadsheet software is NOT meant to handle data like that.
Can you split it into a few smaller files? That is honestly too large for any spreadsheet.
Dang! How does it take to open that file? Are there formulas and macros in there?
As the others said, a spreadsheet isn't a database. And you now experience why. Tell your boss it's not going to work anymore.
Damn, a 1.5GB Excel file!? That sounds like a nightmare to work with. And here I thought a 200MB Excel file acting as a store’s entire yearly accounting ledger (where I used to work) was bad!
At this point, you need a proper database and some reporting scripts / software. If that one file somehow gets corrupted, it’s all over.