[willarmstrong]

Starting in November 2009, my .doc AND .docx files started becoming bloated
at the factor of 500-1000%!!! A file that was 250KB in August is now over
2.5MB!

I have read dozens of postes here on this topic and tried everything
recommended by the MVP's, but to no avail. I started from scratch and
recreated the documents in SafeMode (winword /a) and saved in both formats,
but they were still vastly oversized. I have deselected embedding fonts,
revision tracking, thumbnail views, etc... but still to no avail. I have been
using Office 2007 since July, so could it be an automatic update that caused
this problem. I have made no other changes or installed any other software. I
am using the exact same configuration as I did in July and August. Please
help me solve as I am unable to upload resumes to many services that limit
file size to less than 500KB but must be in Word (.doc) format. Thank you!