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Preventing file size from growing when adding pictures
I am having trouble with file size growing too much when adding pictures. I
often start with a template to create a document. When I save before adding the picture the file size is small, usually 100kb. After I add a small picture (about 200k jpg) and resave the word file size balloons to 3.4MB. This is very annoying since I have to keep a lot of these files and send them to people that use modems. Is there any solution? I have tried multiple templates but none of them helps. |
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Hi,
jpeg files are actually compressed, so what you see as their size when closed and viewing through Explorer is actually their compressed size. When you insert them into Word, they regain their full size so you get a document blow out. The best thing to do is convert them to another file format (tiff, giff, bmp etc) then adjust the settings (dpi, colour pallette etc.) and image size and then insert them into Word. When I used to write technical documents we were advised to use tiff files, but there may be a much better option. This will help you control the size of your document. I think irfanview (free for private use, and I'm not associated with it) is a good program to use to convert files but I haven't used its image manipulation capabilities. If you google "irfanview" you should get to the website very easily. Hope this helps. Fiona Nelson "wishiwerewest" wrote: I am having trouble with file size growing too much when adding pictures. I often start with a template to create a document. When I save before adding the picture the file size is small, usually 100kb. After I add a small picture (about 200k jpg) and resave the word file size balloons to 3.4MB. This is very annoying since I have to keep a lot of these files and send them to people that use modems. Is there any solution? I have tried multiple templates but none of them helps. |
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On top of the excellent picture format ideas from Fiona, have you tried
saving the file with Word's picture compression function? FileSave asToolsCompress pictures I have found this works well. "fiona nelson" wrote: Hi, jpeg files are actually compressed, so what you see as their size when closed and viewing through Explorer is actually their compressed size. When you insert them into Word, they regain their full size so you get a document blow out. The best thing to do is convert them to another file format (tiff, giff, bmp etc) then adjust the settings (dpi, colour pallette etc.) and image size and then insert them into Word. When I used to write technical documents we were advised to use tiff files, but there may be a much better option. This will help you control the size of your document. I think irfanview (free for private use, and I'm not associated with it) is a good program to use to convert files but I haven't used its image manipulation capabilities. If you google "irfanview" you should get to the website very easily. Hope this helps. Fiona Nelson "wishiwerewest" wrote: I am having trouble with file size growing too much when adding pictures. I often start with a template to create a document. When I save before adding the picture the file size is small, usually 100kb. After I add a small picture (about 200k jpg) and resave the word file size balloons to 3.4MB. This is very annoying since I have to keep a lot of these files and send them to people that use modems. Is there any solution? I have tried multiple templates but none of them helps. |
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