Yes, that is correct. Word stupidly 'remembers' these original settings so
that you can 'restore'! Personally, if I am going to add many graphics or
pictures to a document, I always open them in a graphics editor, resize and
resample them to the desired size for the document and save them as JPEGs.
Then I insert them into my documents. I use the free to download IrfanView
for this as it does everything needed and will open and convert virtually
any graphics format you need.
--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://word.mvps.org/
"Brylig" wrote in message
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If you have Word saving Versions of the file it will record the large
version
of the picture and hold on to it no matter how much you try to compress.
Try
going into File Versions, and deleting the whole version history on your
document (Don't even leave one) then go back through the compression steps
and save again. This took my 11 Meg file I was wrestling with down to
100k.