Agreed: compression (and resizing) isn't really doing what it says on the
box. Solution, download a free graphics utility called IrfanView. This is a
brilliant utility for simple editing of practically all know graphics
formats: such as resizing, changing colour depth and dpi. Simply open or
copy your graphic into IrfanView, resize it, reduce dpi to 72dpi (if the
graphics is only going to be displayed) or around 144dpi for a graphic that
is going to be printed. Save it as a jpeg - or for really miniscule graphics
choose png - save to your local HDD and then insert them back into your
document. Inserting your graphic is better then pasting.

--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://word.mvps.org/


"jrsyangl" wrote in message
news :I am trying to reduce the size of a Word document(Windows XP Pro, Office XP
: Pro, Word 2002,SP3) which includes inserted pictures. However after going
: through the process of compressing the pictures (Format
: PicturePictureCompress...), the size of the document does not change at
: all, as if nothing happened. Any help would be appreciated.