Hi Margaret,

It can increase the file size It can also decrease
the file size. There seems to be a connection there
with the last table resizing done by Table=Autofit.

FWIW, changing the setting in Tools=Options=Save,
to not use features available after
Word 97, should generally also reset the compatability options
to that level.

I did achieve a very 'small' file size by opening the document
in Windows Wordpad then saving it from there as a Word 6 .doc
file. Only 14K g It removed everything but the Word
'test' repeated over and over.

From within Word 2003 if I saved the file as Word 6 .doc format
the size drops to 21K. The table comes up in a frame when
reopened that needs to be removed.

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"Margaret Aldis" wrote in message ...
Just a thought - does setting the compatibility options to Word 97 make
things better or worse?

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