Charles, I didn't think that the logo was the issue in this case. I tried
deleting the logo from the template and resaving it but filesize only
decreased by 1KB. I also tried pasting just the logo into a blank Word
document. That resulted in a file of 22KB.

I just tried something else. After I deleted the logo and did a Save as to a
DOT, the filesize went from 978KB to 976KB. Then I opened a new document
based on the revised template and saved that. Next I resaved it as a DOT and
the filesize just dropped to 56KB! Now Open and Repair finds no error
messages in this file. I pasted the logo back in from the original template
and all is well, the filesize just went form 56KB to 58KB and I find no
errors when I run Open and Repair.

I doubted you, but your hunch about the logo must be correct. The error
message about Drawn Objects and Text Boxe, Data Integrity and Numbered Lists
threw me. If these were really error why would deleting the logo remove
them? As for the logo being edited in Word, I doubt that happened though
maybe it was resized in Word.

I suspected that there was something else lurking in the background
especially since Open and Repair originally showed so many errors. I think
the template was created by taking one of the companies more complex
templates with autotext, macros and customized toolbars and stripping those
out. But I don't know how one can be sure everything is stripped out? Did
some of the murky stuff stick onto the logo? Is there any way to really
cleanse a template?

"Charles Kenyon" wrote in message
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I suspect that someone edited the logo in Word. Any change will
dramatically increase your file size.

You may need to recreate the template. Size and format the logo as you
want to use it in an outside application and then import it into your Word
document. Even so, a simple graphic will increase the size of a Word
document or template way beyond the native size of the graphic.
--
Charles Kenyon

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"Mary" wrote in message
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Our organization is in the process of releasing a new set of templates,
which we do annually in our department. Some of the templates already
have some boilerplate content and customized toolbars, but we have one
basic template which we call gcgeneric.dot. This has a number of
customized styles, the same as those used in the other templates, but has
no customized toolbars or boilerplate text. It has two click-in fields,
one for Heading 1 and the second for Text. It comprises just one section
and only one page. The footer has a brief copyright notice and our
company logo in the footer. The header has placeholder for company name,
date and page number. So to sum up, it is very simple. Last year the size
of this template was 256KB, now the revised one is 1MB. Why is it so big?

If I run the Open and Repair function on the DOT file, the Show Repairs
window lists a number of items -- Drawn Objects and Text Boxes 1-8,
Internal Data Integrity (Type 4) 1 and Numbered Styles 1. There are no
graphics in the file except the logo. If I delete that and resave, Open
and Repair still finds the same list of errors. Do these errors suggest
there is some badness in the file. How can it be removed?

We are using Word 2003 on Windows XP.