Crazy File Size Increases

[Dan Howard]

I am editing a novel in Word 2000 (9.0.2812) - it's about
90k words long and normally a 600K file. It seems that two
separate operations have each turned a 600k file into a
2.4M file - first, a couple of global Find/Replace
operations (affecting several hundred words each), and
second, on a new 600k version, a series of tracked version
changes, highlighted and then accepted (a manual Undo of
the Find/Replace operation.
When I copy the text from the bloated file into a new doc,
I get back to reasonable file size, but I lose all my
formatting.
Are both Find/Replace and Change Tracking separately
responsible for the huge discrepancies in file size?
Is there an easier fix to trim down the file without losing
all my formatting?

 

[Charles Kenyon]

In combination, you've discovered that they will bloat file sizes.

You shouldn't lose your formatting doing a copy and paste. To make this work
best, do your formatting using styles and have the same style definitions in
both documents.