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.

The file bloat does look huge though - do you have any embedded graphics?

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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?