Less Memory Usage- Wrokbooks or Worksheets?

channel7

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I have a macro which opens six files into separate workbooks and then opens three different templates into separate workbooks and then opens three blank workbooks to paste data into for a grand total of twelve workbooks.

Obviously this taxes my memory so my question is: What would be the less memory hogging method of displaying all this data at once? With individual workbooks like I have it now or by having a single workbook with everything opening into worksheets? Or is it just a lot of data to display at one time either way I do it?

The six files are large: 32MB, 11MB, 90MB, 86MB, 85MB, and 7MB. I thought these large sizes might be too much for a single workbook to handle.
 

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Joe Was

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Sheet Tabs take far less system overhead than new workbooks or instances of Excel. Which is best?
Depends on how you want to use the information, and if you can use VBA to help or not?
 
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