[Gman]

I have a word 2003 doc that is 101,000 KB. I have a number of pictures which
I tried to compress, but the compress button does not seem to work for this
file. I made a copy of the file and deleted the pictures and the file size
stayed the same. Could this be a virus?

The file is getting hard to deal as saving takes a long time. Any
suggestions?

[Graham Mayor]

Virus - maybe but unlikely. It is probably corrupt. From your copy display
the formatting characters (CTRL+*) then select everything but the final
paragraph mark. Copy to the clipboard and paste into a new document. Does
that help?

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


GMAN wrote:
I have a word 2003 doc that is 101,000 KB. I have a number of
pictures which I tried to compress, but the compress button does not
seem to work for this file. I made a copy of the file and deleted
the pictures and the file size stayed the same. Could this be a
virus?

The file is getting hard to deal as saving takes a long time. Any
suggestions?

[Gman]

Thanks! That seems to have done the trick!!

BTW, Does "corrupt" mean that a file is actually engaged in unethical or
illegal activity, or does it mean that nobody really knows what the hell's
wrong with it?

Thanks again!!


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Virus - maybe but unlikely. It is probably corrupt. From your copy display
the formatting characters (CTRL+*) then select everything but the final
paragraph mark. Copy to the clipboard and paste into a new document. Does
that help?

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


GMAN wrote:
I have a word 2003 doc that is 101,000 KB. I have a number of
pictures which I tried to compress, but the compress button does not
seem to work for this file. I made a copy of the file and deleted
the pictures and the file size stayed the same. Could this be a
virus?

The file is getting hard to deal as saving takes a long time. Any
suggestions?

[Graham Mayor]

It means that it has extra metadata that causes the document to behave
incorrectly. The data in question is stored in the hidden area beyond the
final paragraph mark of the document.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



GMAN wrote:
Thanks! That seems to have done the trick!!

BTW, Does "corrupt" mean that a file is actually engaged in unethical
or illegal activity, or does it mean that nobody really knows what
the hell's wrong with it?

Thanks again!!


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Virus - maybe but unlikely. It is probably corrupt. From your copy
display the formatting characters (CTRL+*) then select everything
but the final paragraph mark. Copy to the clipboard and paste into a
new document. Does that help?

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


GMAN wrote:
I have a word 2003 doc that is 101,000 KB. I have a number of
pictures which I tried to compress, but the compress button does not
seem to work for this file. I made a copy of the file and deleted
the pictures and the file size stayed the same. Could this be a
virus?

The file is getting hard to deal as saving takes a long time. Any
suggestions?