Workbook size in BI 7.0

Does anyone have any information with regrads to the size of a BI 7.0 workbook in comparison to 3.x.  We are presently converting to BI 7.0 and are noticing a consistent increase of 300% (tripling) in size.  This seems to be true regardless of initial size.  We have tested for Excel formatting and usage of VBA and we still get an enormous increase in size.  Has anyone else had this experience?  Why the increase in size?  By the way, we are at SPS12.
Any comment would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you

I just ran wkbks against identical BW 3.5 and BI  7.0 systems using the 3.5 Bex Analyzer with Excel XP (2002) and had only small difference in size  206Kb in 3.5 and 222KB in 7.0.
Now if you jsut started using Excel 2007 - it seems reasonable to expect it would be larger, but not on the order of magnitude you are talking about.  If you are using Excel 2007 since the upgrade, check the file format that the wkbk is being saved with.  The default format for Office 2007 files is xml which can be much, much larger.  xml files have an x on teh end of the file name, e.g. Word  is filename.docx, Excel is wkbk.xlsx, etc.
If you do a save as "xls" you should see a much smaller file.
I think there are a couple of Notes on the default xml file format and how to set it - one of them is
Note 1089212 - BI Addon (7.10): not able display workbooks with Office 2007.

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