[Peter]

Compressing of bitmaps is only usefull when it is an integrated bitmap,
i have never seen this working for linked objects.

I was finally disabling the "Preview Picture (File/Properties) " option
which did the trick !

Thanks all !


C. Moya wrote:
You can try right-clicking on the Visio drawing (without going into Edit
mode), and select "Format Object." There should be an option in there under
the Picture tab to compress the "snapshot" that Word produces.

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-C. Moya
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"Peter" wrote in message
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Hi,

I know that MS Word (2003 SP1) does not store documents in the most
efficient way, what happens now is not acceptable. I created a word
document of 9 pages containing mostly formatted text. The documents
contains 2 bitmaps. One bitmap is the company logo in .jpg format which
is used in the header and is approx. 9Kb. The other bitmap is a Visio
drawing, fairly simple made up on one A4 page containing some vector
graphics and is approx 400Kb. The Visio drawing is inserted into the
document as a linked visio object with automatic updates.

Now when is save the document it is currently 80Mb! Removing the object
and savig the document brings it back to a acceptable 150Kb. If i
re-create the object again, and subsequently save it multiple the
filesize stays at about 4000Kb.

Does anybody known what is causing it and how i can solve this in the
future?