# EXCEL ran out of resources error message

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**Created:** [February 20, 2025, 1:48am UTC](https://community.tiller.com/t/excel-ran-out-of-resources-error-message/30787 "2025-02-20T01:48:24Z")\
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Hi @buzzmaster1 Ken,

I can certainly see why you need these issues resolved before you travel.

I too ran a dual Excel and Sheets for awhile. It was fun learning Sheets and the Google side of things.

I can’t speak to the web version of Excel as I don’t have any experience with that. However, maybe the following will help:

Regarding the “out of resources” error in Windows Excel, have you tried **clearing the Excel cache** solution that I posted about in this thread?

Regarding the large file size with your customized transactions fields, pivot tables and reports; I posted about an interesting Excel command I found last year called Check Performance. It has helped me reduce my Excel file size significantly and improve performance. I haven’t run into any issues using it.

> [@How to reduce time to open a workbook, improve performance and reduce workbook size](https://community.tiller.com/t/how-to-reduce-time-to-open-a-workbook-improve-performance-and-reduce-workbook-size/26586#:~:text=How%20to%20reduce%20time%20to%20open%20a%20workbook%2C%20improve%20performance%20and%20reduce%20workbook%20size):
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> Is your Excel workbook taking a longer time to open up lately? Would you like to improve the overall performance of the workbook? Are you interested in reducing the overall size of the workbook? I recently came across a command in Excel called “Check Performance”. The command will check for cells that have formatting and no data in cells which could be impacting performance. A simple example is where a complete row has color formatting and only a few hundred rows are being used. Given that a …

Clint

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