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Why are Word 2007 files so large?
Starting in November 2009, my .doc AND .docx files started becoming bloated
at the factor of 500-1000%!!! A file that was 250KB in August is now over 2.5MB! I have read dozens of postes here on this topic and tried everything recommended by the MVP's, but to no avail. I started from scratch and recreated the documents in SafeMode (winword /a) and saved in both formats, but they were still vastly oversized. I have deselected embedding fonts, revision tracking, thumbnail views, etc... but still to no avail. I have been using Office 2007 since July, so could it be an automatic update that caused this problem. I have made no other changes or installed any other software. I am using the exact same configuration as I did in July and August. Please help me solve as I am unable to upload resumes to many services that limit file size to less than 500KB but must be in Word (.doc) format. Thank you! |
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Why are Word 2007 files so large?
Have you tried turning on the paragraph markers and then copying everything
except the last paragraph marker into a new document to see if that makes them smaller. If you have a Word 2007 docx document, you can rename its extension from docx to zip and checks its contents. If you could locate the largest files in the zip package, that might also tell something about what is causing the files to be so big. Yves "willarmstrong" wrote in message ... Starting in November 2009, my .doc AND .docx files started becoming bloated at the factor of 500-1000%!!! A file that was 250KB in August is now over 2.5MB! I have read dozens of postes here on this topic and tried everything recommended by the MVP's, but to no avail. I started from scratch and recreated the documents in SafeMode (winword /a) and saved in both formats, but they were still vastly oversized. I have deselected embedding fonts, revision tracking, thumbnail views, etc... but still to no avail. I have been using Office 2007 since July, so could it be an automatic update that caused this problem. I have made no other changes or installed any other software. I am using the exact same configuration as I did in July and August. Please help me solve as I am unable to upload resumes to many services that limit file size to less than 500KB but must be in Word (.doc) format. Thank you! |
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