[Anthony222]

Hi. Every now and then I am tinkering on the same text, just for the joy of working a certain text up to perfection. When I am done with this, I use to copy it to an external hard disk of mine for just in case. In the window in which I am offered the possibilities (should doc. in end folder be replaced? etc.) I also get to know whether the document I had just applied my last tweaks on is larger than the document I want to replace. Today, I have enlarged the document I have on my PC with a couple of pages. Yet I am not told that it is the largest of the two. I am told that it is the newest. The one on my computer - the newest, or most recently saved - is 178 pp. while the one on my hard disk is 174 pp. All pp of the document with the more pp. have text. It is the first time I encounter this strange phenomenon. How come.

[Peter T. Daniels]

The number of pages does not tell you how large the file is (maybe you made
your margins wider, so the same text takes more pages), only the kB tells
you that.

Maybe your storage disk is set to compress files on it, so that they take up
less space than when they are open.

Maybe you changed from .doc format to .docx format -- .docx files are smaller.

On Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at 9:31:03 AM UTC-5, Anthony222 wrote:

Hi. Every now and then I am tinkering on the same text, just for the joy
of working a certain text up to perfection. When I am done with this, I
use to copy it to an external hard disk of mine for just in case. In the
window in which I am offered the possibilities (should doc. in end
folder be replaced? etc.) I also get to know whether the document I had
just applied my last tweaks on is larger than the document I want to
replace. Today, I have enlarged the document I have on my PC with a
couple of pages. Yet I am not told that it is the largest of the two. I
am told that it is the newest. The one on my computer - the newest, or
most recently saved - is 178 pp. while the one on my hard disk is 174
pp. All pp of the document with the more pp. have text. It is the first
time I encounter this strange phenomenon. How come.

[Anthony222]

Thanks for your hints. Both files however have same extension. Neither have widening the margins have been among the adjustments I had made to my text. My storage disk may have compressed the file. Yesterday I have replaced the file on my disk with the new file. Today I have again added a handful of passages. Even though it concerned this time only a few passages, I this time again got the message that the file from my computer is bigger by a couple of kb's... I am pretty confident that I have not accidentally replaced the file on my computer by the file on my storage disk.
Thanks again.