Wanted - Newsletter templates for Word

[Nicetameetya]

Hi - I belong to an organisation that sends out a monthly newsletter
via email. The editor has just changed and she has just sent out a
four page newsletter that came in a 2.5MB file attachment!!! After
checking it with my antivirus software, I opened the newsletter in
Word 2K, checked the properties and found that it's a 1.7 meg file.
Why? I don't know. There are only a few simple graphics (colour) and
one photo image which had been optimised and very small.

The newsletters I get from other organisations are tiny by comparison
(average 65 - 80kb). I would appreciate knowing if the is any freeware
out there that would allow the new editor to create a bright,
colourful newsletter without it having to be so large a file.

 

[Terry]

Hi - I belong to an organisation that sends out a monthly newsletter
via email. The editor has just changed and she has just sent out a
four page newsletter that came in a 2.5MB file attachment!!! After
checking it with my antivirus software, I opened the newsletter in
Word 2K, checked the properties and found that it's a 1.7 meg file.
Why? I don't know. There are only a few simple graphics (colour) and
one photo image which had been optimised and very small.

The newsletters I get from other organisations are tiny by comparison
(average 65 - 80kb). I would appreciate knowing if the is any freeware
out there that would allow the new editor to create a bright,
colourful newsletter without it having to be so large a file.

This had nothing to do with using a template. The large file is
probably the photo attachment. You can verify this by opening the
file, deleting the photo, and then saving the file again. The new file
will, I believe, be very small.

In my experience this happens when you scale the picture, or change
the picture in word (using word's built in editor), or even just
scaling it (dragging the handles). This is easy to do, accidentally,
simply by double clicking on the image. Even though you don't make any
changes, Word seems to convert this into some format that blows the
file size up enormously. I've had files go from 100 KB to 50 MB!

I suggest you scale the picture using an external editor (Irfanview,
for example), convert to jpg, and then insert the jpg picture into the
document. Don't use copy/paste, because then you have no control over
the file format (bmp, jpg, etc.)

If you want more help on this, I suggest posting in one of the
microsoft.public.word newsgroups. They'll be more likely to help, and
the discussion is OT in ACF. Or google on "word image large file
size".

Terry

 

[Kalle Piirainen]

Hi - I belong to an organisation that sends out a monthly newsletter
via email. The editor has just changed and she has just sent out a
four page newsletter that came in a 2.5MB file attachment!!! After
checking it with my antivirus software, I opened the newsletter in
Word 2K, checked the properties and found that it's a 1.7 meg file.
Why? I don't know. There are only a few simple graphics (colour) and
one photo image which had been optimised and very small.

The newsletters I get from other organisations are tiny by comparison
(average 65 - 80kb). I would appreciate knowing if the is any freeware
out there that would allow the new editor to create a bright,
colourful newsletter without it having to be so large a file.

If the layout etc. is ok and the actual problem is filesize, I'd
consider getting a PDF converter to be the best solution. I tend to get
goosebumbs when someone sends me .doc newsletters or similar documents
that I'm not supposed to change. With PDF you generally get smaller
filesizes and as a bonus you get constant appearance, independent from
the users program version, which is not always the case with word/.doc.

-K