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files become humungous
I am creating a series of table in a file that I intend to view as an outline.
Each table will be under a separate item in the outline. I am finding that the file is becoming unwieldy very quickly. I looked at the file in script editor and have found that every td has a tremendous amount of code embedded in it, much of it the same in each td. In the past I have tried to modify or delete this sort of stuff. But Word does not allow that or puts it right back in. Has anyone tried using stylesheets or classes to solve this sort of problem? If yes, has it worked? If yes, I may need some help setting these up. |
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Hi ?B?RXN0aGVySA==?=,
I am creating a series of table in a file that I intend to view as an outline. Each table will be under a separate item in the outline. I am finding that the file is becoming unwieldy very quickly. I looked at the file in script editor and have found that every td has a tremendous amount of code embedded in it, much of it the same in each td. In the past I have tried to modify or delete this sort of stuff. But Word does not allow that or puts it right back in. A table in Word stores lots of information that Word requires in order to lay out the table. I don't think there's anything you can do to reduce the table structures in Word's native file format. Hmmm. I suppose you could TRY creating the tables as pure, minimal HTML (since you seem comfortable with that syntax) in separate files (one for each table). Then use Insert/File with a link to bring them into Word. That *might* have an influence on the bloat problems you're experiencing (no guarantees, though). Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Thanks for the response. I have found that some of the growth is due to Word
adding a huge amount of bookmarks as I do copy and paste operations. I deleted many of these without harm (so far at least). Trouble is that even though these take a large part of the html file, the doc file only goes down abouot 10-20% and moves up slowly again every time I open the file and do work. So it does not look good. "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?RXN0aGVySA==?=, I am creating a series of table in a file that I intend to view as an outline. Each table will be under a separate item in the outline. I am finding that the file is becoming unwieldy very quickly. I looked at the file in script editor and have found that every td has a tremendous amount of code embedded in it, much of it the same in each td. In the past I have tried to modify or delete this sort of stuff. But Word does not allow that or puts it right back in. A table in Word stores lots of information that Word requires in order to lay out the table. I don't think there's anything you can do to reduce the table structures in Word's native file format. Hmmm. I suppose you could TRY creating the tables as pure, minimal HTML (since you seem comfortable with that syntax) in separate files (one for each table). Then use Insert/File with a link to bring them into Word. That *might* have an influence on the bloat problems you're experiencing (no guarantees, though). Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Hi, Esther. I have found that saving as RTF often helps when dealing with
tables. However, I face the same problems as you when I try to copy a table from Word and paste into FrontPage, and I have still found no nice way to get around it! ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "EstherH" wrote in message ... Thanks for the response. I have found that some of the growth is due to Word adding a huge amount of bookmarks as I do copy and paste operations. I deleted many of these without harm (so far at least). Trouble is that even though these take a large part of the html file, the doc file only goes down abouot 10-20% and moves up slowly again every time I open the file and do work. So it does not look good. "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?RXN0aGVySA==?=, I am creating a series of table in a file that I intend to view as an outline. Each table will be under a separate item in the outline. I am finding that the file is becoming unwieldy very quickly. I looked at the file in script editor and have found that every td has a tremendous amount of code embedded in it, much of it the same in each td. In the past I have tried to modify or delete this sort of stuff. But Word does not allow that or puts it right back in. A table in Word stores lots of information that Word requires in order to lay out the table. I don't think there's anything you can do to reduce the table structures in Word's native file format. Hmmm. I suppose you could TRY creating the tables as pure, minimal HTML (since you seem comfortable with that syntax) in separate files (one for each table). Then use Insert/File with a link to bring them into Word. That *might* have an influence on the bloat problems you're experiencing (no guarantees, though). Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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In my case, this did not help. In fact, the files became about 25% larger.
I know why. Word has inserted a huge amount of bookmarks into my tables which occupy a lot of bytes in the script files (bat probably not in the Word files). I noticed that much of info repeats - eg td info, p info. I will soon try to redo my files using styles (which I have not used at all until now). I am hoping that this will help. Anyway, thanks for responding. "Anne Troy" wrote: Hi, Esther. I have found that saving as RTF often helps when dealing with tables. However, I face the same problems as you when I try to copy a table from Word and paste into FrontPage, and I have still found no nice way to get around it! ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "EstherH" wrote in message ... Thanks for the response. I have found that some of the growth is due to Word adding a huge amount of bookmarks as I do copy and paste operations. I deleted many of these without harm (so far at least). Trouble is that even though these take a large part of the html file, the doc file only goes down abouot 10-20% and moves up slowly again every time I open the file and do work. So it does not look good. "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?RXN0aGVySA==?=, I am creating a series of table in a file that I intend to view as an outline. Each table will be under a separate item in the outline. I am finding that the file is becoming unwieldy very quickly. I looked at the file in script editor and have found that every td has a tremendous amount of code embedded in it, much of it the same in each td. In the past I have tried to modify or delete this sort of stuff. But Word does not allow that or puts it right back in. A table in Word stores lots of information that Word requires in order to lay out the table. I don't think there's anything you can do to reduce the table structures in Word's native file format. Hmmm. I suppose you could TRY creating the tables as pure, minimal HTML (since you seem comfortable with that syntax) in separate files (one for each table). Then use Insert/File with a link to bring them into Word. That *might* have an influence on the bloat problems you're experiencing (no guarantees, though). Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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