bloated document file

[Roger PB]

I had been happily revising a report in Winword 97, using
XP. Each successive version, not surprisingly, grew
slightly larger. Version 2 had about 300,000 bytes.
version 3 had 420,000. But then things got out of hand.
After a few revisions version 4 had 2 million, and
version 5 over 6 million. I only realised this when
someone to whom I emailed the text queried why the file
had got so large.

I loaded the 6 million byte version and saved it under
another name, but otherwise unchanged. The new version
had 290,000 bytes.

Can someone tell me what is going on?

 

[Maine]

Please see my message just posted -- Size of doc much
larger than it should be.

I have been struggling with this for three days. One
thing that worked for a few, but not all, was when I
opened the doc, selected from the first letter through
the last -- do not Select All -- cut and pasted into new
doc. Reduced 700 kb to 22. But now it won't work for the
others, so I'm at a loss. I'll keep your message, and if
I find out something, will let you know. Did you read the
suggestions in the Knowledge Base -- turn off Auto Save,
only embed fonts being used, etc.?