Hi Jerry

In that case I would actually start to be worried about document
corruption - 9-60Mb is a huge bloat and suggests you are building up some
serious crud in the file. If it isn't something that "should" be there, then
it suggests some excessive complexity in the way Word is storing the
non-textual information in the file (formatting pointers etc.)

I'd start over with a new document from template, and paste all but the last
paragraph mark into the new document. Or try saving to Word HTML and
reopening to see if that improves things.

(Reading your reply again, I'm not sure if you understood my question about
embedded graphics - this is where you see an EMBED code if you toggle field
codes, as opposed to a pasted graphic or one which is linked to an external
file. Depending on the tool that owns the format, this sometimes seems to
achieve huge bloats for minor changes such as a change of size.)

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Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP
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Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org

"Jerry" wrote in message
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Hi. Thanks for your reply. The answer to all of your questions is no. I
also
switched off stuff like embed fonts, embed linguistic data and the like.
And
yes, there's plenty of graphics, but I've been deleting some, rather than
adding anything. By all logic the size should have gone down...


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| Do you have track changes on? Or the Allow fast saves option checked? Or
| Automatically save versions? Any of these will keep all the original
content
| plus any changes you make in the file.
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| The file bloat does look huge though - do you have any embedded
graphics?
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| Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP
| Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk
| Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org
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| "Jerry" wrote in message
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| I've been working on a large document (220 pages, 9 MB), mainly
changing
| the
| formatting, rearranging paragraphs and deleting comments. The document
now
| objectively contains less information, but is 60 MB in size. Why is
this?
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