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Major file bloating in Word97, is it fixed in Word 2003
I needed to do a document and also prepare a PowerPoint for use on a
laptop. unfortunately, due to Murphy's Law, the only laptop I have in working order at the moment is an ancient Windows 98 system with Office 97 that I haven't used in years. I thought it might be easier to prepare the stuff in Office97 rather than worry about accidentally using something that would make my document incompatible. While putting a few tables and charts from Excel into a Word document, my file size swelled. Worse, when I was revising and deleting a few charts, then making a few new ones it didn't seem to affect the file size except to increase it. It never decreased even when I saved intern things with far less data. When I was all done, the file was over 1mb. Hitting CTRL-A, CTRL-C, then opening a new Word document and then hitting CTRL-V caused the new document to be only 400-some K. Given that I have to move it to the old laptop via floppy, I'm a little sensitive to file size. Was this wasteful behavior fixed in Word 2003? I don't recall ever seeing things quite this bad, but it's been a while since I've had to worry about file sizes this much. Given that the thumb flash drive I normally use is as large as the ancient laptop's hard drive, it's not normally an issue. Heck, I've got a tumb drive that is larger than the laptop hard drive. I normally work in Word 2003 as my latest computer only came with the Office 2007 trial. Since I don't like the new interface anyways, I was unwilling to shell out $ to pay to convert to the full version. |
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Major file bloating in Word97, is it fixed in Word 2003
Copy all but the final paragraph mark into a new blank document and save
that. Don't even think of *saving* to floppy. COPY it after saving it to the hard drive. Be aware that Word documents can be much larger than the capacity of a floppy drive, so you may need to use a zip utility such as WinRar to split it into a number of parts ... or you could e-mail it to yourself ... or create an ad hoc network using an Ethernet crossover cable to transfer it. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org SlickRCBD wrote: I needed to do a document and also prepare a PowerPoint for use on a laptop. unfortunately, due to Murphy's Law, the only laptop I have in working order at the moment is an ancient Windows 98 system with Office 97 that I haven't used in years. I thought it might be easier to prepare the stuff in Office97 rather than worry about accidentally using something that would make my document incompatible. While putting a few tables and charts from Excel into a Word document, my file size swelled. Worse, when I was revising and deleting a few charts, then making a few new ones it didn't seem to affect the file size except to increase it. It never decreased even when I saved intern things with far less data. When I was all done, the file was over 1mb. Hitting CTRL-A, CTRL-C, then opening a new Word document and then hitting CTRL-V caused the new document to be only 400-some K. Given that I have to move it to the old laptop via floppy, I'm a little sensitive to file size. Was this wasteful behavior fixed in Word 2003? I don't recall ever seeing things quite this bad, but it's been a while since I've had to worry about file sizes this much. Given that the thumb flash drive I normally use is as large as the ancient laptop's hard drive, it's not normally an issue. Heck, I've got a tumb drive that is larger than the laptop hard drive. I normally work in Word 2003 as my latest computer only came with the Office 2007 trial. Since I don't like the new interface anyways, I was unwilling to shell out $ to pay to convert to the full version. |
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Major file bloating in Word97, is it fixed in Word 2003
On Nov 23, 3:12 am, "Graham Mayor" wrote:
Be aware that Word documents can be much larger than the capacity of a floppy drive, so you may need to use a zip utility such as WinRar to split it into a number of parts ... or you could e-mail it to yourself ... or create an ad hoc network using an Ethernet crossover cable to transfer it. -- I don't know why my earlier reply never showed up. I'd love to do the last option, but can you recommend a place where i can get a cheap Ethernet NIC for a Windows 98 _First_ Edition laptop that has a single type 3 PCMICA slot and USB ports but no built-in Ethernet? It does have a built-in 56K modem. The problem is Windows 98 First Edition drivers, and I really don't want to spend a lot of money on a laptop that's been sitting unused in my closet for over four years. |
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Major file bloating in Word97, is it fixed in Word 2003
SlickRCBD wrote:
On Nov 23, 3:12 am, "Graham Mayor" wrote: Be aware that Word documents can be much larger than the capacity of a floppy drive, so you may need to use a zip utility such as WinRar to split it into a number of parts ... or you could e-mail it to yourself ... or create an ad hoc network using an Ethernet crossover cable to transfer it. -- I don't know why my earlier reply never showed up. I'd love to do the last option, but can you recommend a place where i can get a cheap Ethernet NIC for a Windows 98 _First_ Edition laptop that has a single type 3 PCMICA slot and USB ports but no built-in Ethernet? It does have a built-in 56K modem. The problem is Windows 98 First Edition drivers, and I really don't want to spend a lot of money on a laptop that's been sitting unused in my closet for over four years. Finding a card for that could be tough. But since you have USB ports (presumably USB 1.0, but that's ok), you could try a USB memory stick. You might be limited by Win98 to a 256 MB or 512 MB stick, but that should be enough. Copy documents to the stick, move the stick to the other computer, and copy to the hard drive. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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