[Stefan Blom[_3_]]

If you copy and paste document content, minus the final paragraph mark
(¶) into a new document, does that improve the situation? Doing this
should get rid of "garbage" in the file.

Trying to reduce the size of the graphics would also be helpful of course.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



On 2012-01-27 01:17 (GMT+1), David Hare-Scott wrote:
I am not sure if this is the best NG for the question so please correct
me if it is not.

I have a two page Word document with text and some graphics. It is a
collaborative effort by several people so different versions of Word are
in use. When the first version came to me the file was about 1.3 meg.
After several rounds of editing it had grown to 20 megs! It is still the
same two pages with the same graphics in it, nobody added more graphics.

I created a new document and copied and pasted everything into it. This
reduced it to 9 megs. This is still giving problems as my mail server is
complaining when I send it to somebody. If transformed to a PDF the file
is about 600K.

How do I keep it in Word and shrink it back to the size that it started
and how do I prevent the problem again?

David