How can I reduce the file size of my Word Form?

[Nadine]

Hello;

I hope this is posted to the appropriate group. If not can you please tell
me where I should post this question?

I have a form with some protected sections that is seventeen pages long.
The protected sections contain a lot of tables with calculated fields.
Before it is filled in the file is 5.48 MB. After it is completed it can be
much longer and grow exponentially in size. I have received calls from staff
members who say the file grows so large that it takes a long time to save
(five minutes at times), sometimes Word crashes and they have a hard time
attaching it to our client information system because it exceeds size
restrictions imposed by the CIS application. Because some sections are
protected there is also code in the back end to enable the spell check
feature.

So far the only work around we have found is to unlock the document (which
we would prefer not to do) copy and paste the content into a new document.
The new document is small enough to be attached to the CIS but the
calculations no longer work and the document is unprotected. Is there any
way I could keep the file size down so it won’t grow extremely large and
cause problems?

Thanks,
Nadine

 

[Stefan Blom]

If you just protect the document to which you copied, the form fields should
work again.