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Please help: Making Word save the -FULL- file contents, not the differences
I am a newbie to Word so please bear with me.
I have a 144 MB file named foo_orginal.doc. I make some changes to it and save it as foo_changed.doc. This new file, foo_changed.doc, is only 4 MB! The new file foo_changed.doc works just fine in Word. That is, Word sees it as the 100+ MB file that it really is and not some truncated version of the original file, as the reduced file size would suggest. I am assuming that Word is storing the -DIFFERENCES- between the original and the new file in foo_changed.doc and "knows" that foo_original.doc is the "mother" document. Could someone please verify this assumption for me and please explain to me how I can "force" Word to save the -FULL- contents into a file when I save a new version of the file. That is, if I save foo_original.doc as foo_changed_2.doc, I want foo_changed_2.doc to be around 150 MB in size, not 4 MB as in the example above. Please help. Thanks. |
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Please help: Making Word save the -FULL- file contents, not the differences
Make sure that you don't have "Allow fast saves" checked on the Save tab of
Tools | Options. Also make sure that you're actually looking at your Word document file and not one of the many temp files Word creates while you're working. It's also possible that 4 MB is the true size of the file and that the original is artificially bulked up by saving versions; make sure you have versioning turned off as well. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jeff" wrote in message oups.com... I am a newbie to Word so please bear with me. I have a 144 MB file named foo_orginal.doc. I make some changes to it and save it as foo_changed.doc. This new file, foo_changed.doc, is only 4 MB! The new file foo_changed.doc works just fine in Word. That is, Word sees it as the 100+ MB file that it really is and not some truncated version of the original file, as the reduced file size would suggest. I am assuming that Word is storing the -DIFFERENCES- between the original and the new file in foo_changed.doc and "knows" that foo_original.doc is the "mother" document. Could someone please verify this assumption for me and please explain to me how I can "force" Word to save the -FULL- contents into a file when I save a new version of the file. That is, if I save foo_original.doc as foo_changed_2.doc, I want foo_changed_2.doc to be around 150 MB in size, not 4 MB as in the example above. Please help. Thanks. |
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