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Small document creates huge Word file
Hi folks...
I am adding figures and tables to a Microsoft Word document of less than 75,000 words, which, as plain text, occupies "just" 1.2 MB on disk. However, after putting just 3 figures and 11 tables in, the file size has exploded to 159 MB! The figures are simple JPGs (less than 100 KB each) and I link to their files from Word, whereas the tables only contain text and are copied from another file, where I created them initially and only used it for storing them. Any ideas as to what is happening? Thanks, Dimitris |
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Small document creates huge Word file
Yes. You are putting image files in your documents. I would guess you
resized or cropped them within Word as well (this doubles the storage required for the image). Word is not a good graphics program. It converts jpgs into an internal bitmap configuration, I believe. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. wrote in message oups.com... Hi folks... I am adding figures and tables to a Microsoft Word document of less than 75,000 words, which, as plain text, occupies "just" 1.2 MB on disk. However, after putting just 3 figures and 11 tables in, the file size has exploded to 159 MB! The figures are simple JPGs (less than 100 KB each) and I link to their files from Word, whereas the tables only contain text and are copied from another file, where I created them initially and only used it for storing them. Any ideas as to what is happening? Thanks, Dimitris |
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Hi...
Thanks for the reply. I am not sure how I put image files in my document, as you say. Do you mean that, with every table that I copy from one file to the other, an entire bitmap is transfered? Even so, the entire source file of each of the tables is 100KB - 200KB, whereas the 3 JPGs I have only put in are less than 100KB each, as already explained. I think it has to do with the tables, since I just copied over one more and the document became 165 MB! An obvious solution is to recreate the tables from scratch, but this will take a few hours and it is duplicate work anyway. Is there any cleverer solution? Cheers, Dimitris Charles Kenyon wrote: Yes. You are putting image files in your documents. I would guess you resized or cropped them within Word as well (this doubles the storage required for the image). Word is not a good graphics program. It converts jpgs into an internal bitmap configuration, I believe. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. wrote in message oups.com... Hi folks... I am adding figures and tables to a Microsoft Word document of less than 75,000 words, which, as plain text, occupies "just" 1.2 MB on disk. However, after putting just 3 figures and 11 tables in, the file size has exploded to 159 MB! The figures are simple JPGs (less than 100 KB each) and I link to their files from Word, whereas the tables only contain text and are copied from another file, where I created them initially and only used it for storing them. Any ideas as to what is happening? Thanks, Dimitris |
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Small document creates huge Word file
....and to complement my previous comment, I tried erasing a few
pictures and tables from teh document, and it remains at the same size. I could surely use some ideas right now! :-) Thanks, Dimitris |
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Small document creates huge Word file
Any more clues, anyone?
Thanks! Dimitris |
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Small document creates huge Word file
In the end, I 've found a workaround. Apparently the file was corrupted
somehow, so by copying everything apart from the last paragraph mark to a new document did the trick. Cheers, Dimitris |
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