[JoAnn Paules]

Not worried about color - all black and white. Graphics are not OLE. Getting
it to the point where I can create the .pdf is the challenge. I've been
literally able to make one or two *minor* text changes before it goes
Pfffft! If I'm lucky I can save it before it locks me out.

I'm going to try the HTML thing one more time today. I've requested more RAM
(running 1GB now) but that will take time, if it's even approved. If this
doesn't work for me today, I'll take it home and work on it there. My system
can handle it.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


"Henk57" wrote in message
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Dear JoAnn
Appreciating that Word has a bad reputation when working with graphics
and puts a lot of "air" in its files, one of the risks I can think of
is that you lose graphics quality (resolution, colour quality, ..) in
this way. It depends what you want to do with it (just viewing as
eBook? or also printing). I have a major project with many graphics
and texts, 600+ pages, 3000 Xrefs, and still growing - that I publish
as an eBook. It's still manageable - 10MB or so. Conversion to pdf
and then into a specific protection format gives about same file size.
(In case you want more details on this just send me an email {info at
eurebooks.eu} as this is beyond the scope of this forum)
I also found that OLE links blow up files tremendously - e.g. Excel
tables pasted "as link" into Word. If you had these in yr 175 MB file,
it may be worthwhile to check them.
HTH, Henk


JoAnn Paules;2315803 Wrote:
I've been working an recreating a technical manual that exists in paper
form
only right now. As of this morning it was at 175MB and I still have
about 10
large graphics to insert. It keeps crashing Word so I Googled for ways
to
reduce the file size.

I compressed the graphics - no change. No versions. Fast Saves and
Background Saves are deselected. No change.

I found a tip to save the file as an HTML, close the .doc, open the
HTML in
Word and save as a .doc. My file is now under 5MB. I saved it as a new
name
just in case. What are the dangers of doing this? It *appears* okay but
I'm
hesitant to overwrite the master file. It represents weeks of work -
some of
it done at home on my own time. I'd really rather not lose anything.
(Yes, I
can/will back the file up on a flash drive but I'd still like to know
about
any risks of doing this.)

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375




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Henk57