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?

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!
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"Stephen" wrote in message
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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?

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!
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"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?