bloated document file

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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?
 
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.?
 
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