Small document creates huge Word file

[dterzis]

Hi folks...

I am adding figures and tables to a Microsoft Word document of less
than 75,000 words, which, as plain text, occupies "just" 1.2 MB on
disk. However, after putting just 3 figures and 11 tables in, the file
size has exploded to 159 MB!

The figures are simple JPGs (less than 100 KB each) and I link to their
files from Word, whereas the tables only contain text and are copied
from another file, where I created them initially and only used it for
storing them.

Any ideas as to what is happening?

Thanks,

Dimitris

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Yes. You are putting image files in your documents. I would guess you
resized or cropped them within Word as well (this doubles the storage
required for the image). Word is not a good graphics program. It converts
jpgs into an internal bitmap configuration, I believe.
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[dterzis]

Hi...

Thanks for the reply. I am not sure how I put image files in my
document, as you say.

Do you mean that, with every table that I copy from one file to the
other, an entire bitmap is transfered? Even so, the entire source file
of each of the tables is 100KB - 200KB, whereas the 3 JPGs I have only
put in are less than 100KB each, as already explained.

I think it has to do with the tables, since I just copied over one more
and the document became 165 MB! An obvious solution is to recreate the
tables from scratch, but this will take a few hours and it is duplicate
work anyway.

Is there any cleverer solution?

Cheers,

Dimitris

 

[dterzis]

....and to complement my previous comment, I tried erasing a few
pictures and tables from teh document, and it remains at the same size.

I could surely use some ideas right now!

Thanks,

Dimitris

 

[dterzis]

Any more clues, anyone?

Thanks!

Dimitris

 

[dterzis]

In the end, I 've found a workaround. Apparently the file was corrupted
somehow, so by copying everything apart from the last paragraph mark to
a new document did the trick.

Cheers,

Dimitris