Blank Word 2000 file over 80MB????

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Zzed

A coworker of mine was creating a Word 2000 document that included
several small photos from jpg's, a few drawing objects, and some text
and noticed that the file was well over 80MB. Turning off Fast Saves
and "make backup" changed nothing. Doing a "Save As" did nothing. I
even went as far as deleting everything in the document (yes, that's
right, it's a blank white page now) and did a "Save As" and it's still
80MB+. It shows no versions are being saved either.

How can a blank document be 80MB+ and how do I "clean" it??

-=Zzed=-
 
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Marcel

Hi Zzed,

Check whether the 'Highlight Changes' is enabled (Tools>Track
Changes>Highlight Changes). I suspect that the 'Track Changes while
editing' option is enabled, but that the 'Highlight changes on screen'
is disabled. This means that until you actually accept the changes in
the document (i.e. when you deleted them), the pictures are still
actually in the file, but just not displayed.

See what happens when you accept all the changes (Tools>Track
Changes>Accept or Reject changes>Accept all). Then save the file and
check its size. Well??

BTW, were these 'small' photos small when they were inserted, or were
they scaled once placed into the document? In the latter case, I
suspect that the full photo is in the document (so you can size it back
up). Check the scaling setting of the photos. If you know you want them
fairly small, why not scale (copies of) the photos before inserting
them in the document. That should save you a lot of room.

Good luck.

Marcel
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Zzed

Unfortunately, the "Track Changes While Editing" option was already
disabled, so I don't think that is the culprit.

Attempting to "Accept All" changes tells me there are no changes to
accept.

As for the picture size when they wereinserted, I had asked my coworker
about that. She said all of the pictures were resized to around
800x600 in Corel PhotoPaint, then saved as a new JPG file, which she
then inserted into Word as a picture. She said she did not resize the
pictures once they were in the Word document. Plus, that still
wouldn't explain why the file is still huge even after the pictures
were removed.

Thanks for the ideas, though! Any more? :)

-=Zzed=-
 
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