Updating document fields increases the size of the Word document

[Guest]

Why is it that when I update the fields in the Table of Contents or List of
Figures or List of Tables, my Word document increases in size exponentially?

 

[Guest]

Beats me. I suspect that updating the fields causes Word to create or
recreate all the hidden bookmarks used for the various TOC fields, but I
don't think that would result in an exponential increase in size.

You're not using a version of Word that allows saving versions, are you?
That might make the file size increase substantially with each save, but
still not related to updating the fields.

Bear

 

[Guest]

Thanks Bear,

Actually, I was using the feature for a while in this document that allowed
version save, and then unchecked it. I was also continuing to create the
document as a template, which really messed me up. Now it is as a Word Doc
and my styles are somewhat back to normal, but I just can't seem to use the
Update All feature in this version of Word 2003 - it destroys all my
cross-references (ref not found...).

I read there was a bug in the Office 2003 Professional regarding updating
fields, but am not sure if that is the problem with this.

sbeckman