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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| "Jerry" wrote in message
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| I've been working on a large document (220 pages, 9 MB), mainly changing
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| 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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