On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 10:29:42 -0500, "CarlosAntenna" wrote:

I am posting here because I am not sure which NG should get this and because
this NG seems to be fairly active.

A user emailed a Word 97 document to me. The attachment was over 3 MB. If
I save the attachment to my PC it stays the same size, but if I open it in
Word 2002 and then Save As, the file size changes to 25 KB. Is there any
explanation for this behavior? Why would his file be so large, it was a
simple 2 page letter?

My main concern is this: If he emails such documents to customers with
dial-up connections they could be very unhappy with us.

I am very unhappy because I received a 5Mb attachment.

When I opened it, it was just over 2Mb.

It was a three-page document, with 257 words, a border and one photograph.

I recently prepared a document to send to someone else. It was 65 pages, with
several photographs and an index, and came to just over 1,5 Mb. I saved it ans
sent it as a PDF file, which was 1,8 Mb.

A couple of days ago I received a pdf file that was over 1 Mb - it was a one
page form with a logo and it was scam/spam, which was even more annoying.

So how is it that a 65 page document with several photographs (created in Word
97) is smaller than a one or two page document?


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Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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