A Word 2007 file size issue...

[Carmen Gauvin-O'Donnell]

Hi folks!

Can someone explain the following?

Document 1: 14 pages long, 5824 words, text only, 69 kb in size.

Document 1: only 4 pages long, only 897 words, text only, *1.1 megs in size*

Both documents are school papers so they are formatted identically.

Question: How can I go about finding out what is causing the bloating in the
second document so I can cut it back down to a reasonable size?

Thanks in advance to all you Sherlock Holmes' out there who will no doubt
come back to me "elementary, my dear Carmen...!"

Carmen

 

[Graham Mayor]

Are they both saved as docx format or is the larger one doc?

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[Carmen Gauvin-O'Donnell]

They are both Word 97-2003 docs.

C.

Are they both saved as docx format or is the larger one doc?

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[Graham Mayor]

Try copying all but the last paragraph mark of the larger document into a
new document and save that. Does that make it smaller?

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[Carmen Gauvin-O'Donnell]

Okay, thanks Graham, I'll go try that.

C.

Try copying all but the last paragraph mark of the larger document into a
new document and save that. Does that make it smaller?

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com

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