Hi, thanks again for your most valuable help. I copied and pasted
everything in a new document and got the size down to the original
9 megs.
And you are right, I misunderstood your question - there was a
number of embedded Visio diagrams. I ctrl-shift-F9-ed them, and
the size dropped to 6.5 megs.
message | Hi Jerry
|
| In that case I would actually start to be worried about document
| corruption - 9-60Mb is a huge bloat and suggests you are building up some
| serious crud in the file. If it isn't something that "should" be there,
then
| it suggests some excessive complexity in the way Word is storing the
| non-textual information in the file (formatting pointers etc.)
|
| I'd start over with a new document from template, and paste all but the
last
| paragraph mark into the new document. Or try saving to Word HTML and
| reopening to see if that improves things.
|
| (Reading your reply again, I'm not sure if you understood my question
about
| embedded graphics - this is where you see an EMBED code if you toggle
field
| codes, as opposed to a pasted graphic or one which is linked to an
external
| file. Depending on the tool that owns the format, this sometimes seems to
| achieve huge bloats for minor changes such as a change of size.)
|
| --
| Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP
| Syntagma partnership site:
http://www.syntagma.co.uk
|
|
| | > Hi. Thanks for your reply. The answer to all of your questions is no. I
| also
| > switched off stuff like embed fonts, embed linguistic data and the like.
| And
| > yes, there's plenty of graphics, but I've been deleting some, rather
than
| > adding anything. By all logic the size should have gone down...
| >
| >
| > message | > | Do you have track changes on? Or the Allow fast saves option checked?
Or
| > | Automatically save versions? Any of these will keep all the original
| > content
| > | plus any changes you make in the file.
| > |
| > | The file bloat does look huge though - do you have any embedded
| graphics?
| > |
| > | --
| > | Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP
| > | Syntagma partnership site:
http://www.syntagma.co.uk
| > |
| > |
| > |
| > | | > | > I've been working on a large document (220 pages, 9 MB), mainly
| changing
| > | the
| > | > formatting, rearranging paragraphs and deleting comments. The
document
| > now
| > | > objectively contains less information, but is 60 MB in size. Why is
| > this?
| > | >
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