Unusually large file size in word XP.

[Phil Mulhall]

There are alot of messages in this forum about word files expanding
massively for no apparent reason. I couldn't find a solution that
worked.

I have a word file that crashed a few times and the ballooned up to
44Mb. And it was just 30 pages with a few tables and no images, so no
real reason why it should be that big.

To get around this I simply opened the document, saved as an .rtf
file, closed word again, opened the .rtf and saved it off as a .doc
with a new filename. The file size reduced dramatically 314kb - now
that's more like it!

I know this might not work for all cases, but at least it might be a
solution for people with simple documents out there.

Phil.

 

[Margaret Aldis]

Hi Phil

Very large file sizes (especially sudden ballooning if you don't have
graphics) do often indicate file corruption and saving to RTF will generally
fix that. It may also lose some information and in recent versions of Word
saving to HTML (unfiltered) and then opening and resaving as a .doc usually
works best.