Large Save As Word 2007 Files

[revoraman]

When saving Word files within Word 2007 as .docx files and .doc
files,all of a sudden these files are now in the region of 1.7Mb
upwards.Why,and how can I get them back to the small Kb sizes the Save
As were previously? Thanks in advance.

 

[Terry Farrell]

What size is a new document with just a single character when saved as a
docx?

 

[revoraman]

Thanks Terry.Really appreciate your prompt response because my Zip
disk is rapidly filling up with a mere handful of Word 2007 *.docx
Save As.

1817 Kb with just one single character saved.Hope you can point me in
the right direction as previous *.docx Save As have not been anything
as large as this

 

[Terry Farrell]

An empty docx file should only be around 13kb. So find your normal.dotx and
rename it normal.bad. Restart Word and test again.

Terry

 

[revoraman]

Thanks for that Terry.Although it took me a bit of 'hunting down' that
normal.dotx file which despite engaging XP's Search engine not being
able to locate it,I managed to re-name and carried out another single
character Save As docx,and it was down to 10Kb,more like it.

Thanks again.

 

[Terry Farrell]

Excellent, that should resolve the problem.

Terry