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Ballooning file sizes in Word 2003?
I've got a document that only has text and tables in it (i.e., no pictures).
It used to be a very reasonable couple of hundred KB. Somehow, after someone else opened and resaved it (also in Word 2003), the file size is now 60MB! Versioning is off, quick saves are off, all tracked changes have been accepted. If I try to save it as an rtf, the file size balloons to 600MB (!). If I try to save as an earlier version of Word, the save just fails completely . . . Ideas? |
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Ballooning file sizes in Word 2003?
Complex tables? Nested? Multi-page?
You may have corruption. I would strongly reccommend copying and pasting into a new document and saving. If size is still high, copy and paste in chunks and see which chunk(s) are very large. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Stephen" wrote in message ... I've got a document that only has text and tables in it (i.e., no pictures). It used to be a very reasonable couple of hundred KB. Somehow, after someone else opened and resaved it (also in Word 2003), the file size is now 60MB! Versioning is off, quick saves are off, all tracked changes have been accepted. If I try to save it as an rtf, the file size balloons to 600MB (!). If I try to save as an earlier version of Word, the save just fails completely . . . Ideas? |
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Ballooning file sizes in Word 2003?
I managed to resolve the problem with most versions of the document through a
combination of "open and repair" and "accept all changes". There are still two copies of the file where doing this doesn't change the file size, however. Stephen "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Complex tables? Nested? Multi-page? You may have corruption. I would strongly reccommend copying and pasting into a new document and saving. If size is still high, copy and paste in chunks and see which chunk(s) are very large. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Stephen" wrote in message ... I've got a document that only has text and tables in it (i.e., no pictures). It used to be a very reasonable couple of hundred KB. Somehow, after someone else opened and resaved it (also in Word 2003), the file size is now 60MB! Versioning is off, quick saves are off, all tracked changes have been accepted. If I try to save it as an rtf, the file size balloons to 600MB (!). If I try to save as an earlier version of Word, the save just fails completely . . . Ideas? |
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