Sorry, no change... Following the directions in Ben's original post
after setting Word 97 compatibility, and disabling features introduced
after Word 97, gave me a file of 104 KB -- nearly the same as Ben got.

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On Tue, 3 May 2005 21:20:19 +0100, "Margaret Aldis"
wrote:

Just a thought - does setting the compatibility options to Word 97 make
things better or worse?

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"Bob Buckland ?:-)" 75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote
in message ...
Hi Ben,

Unfortunately using the Tools=Options=Save choice to
disable features not supported in Word 97
may actually increase the file size slightly in
Word 2003 when using tables.

Word 97 has been on the market 8+ years now.
Counting the development and beta time it's close
to being a decade old

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"benc" wrote in message
oups.com...

...I was hoping for some "table lite" or "Save as Word 97 doc" feature,
but it doesn't look like there's such a thing. Thanks again for the
replies.
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