File Size Ballooning

[Davidnotdave]

Why would a 77 kb file balloon to 20 MB when a 578 kb jpeg file is inserted?
More importantly, what can be done to keep the file, with the image, at a
size that can be emailed, preferably under 1 MB?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi David,

When you email a .doc file may become an RTF file
format. RTF files don't compress graphics in the
same way that .doc files can.

Do you get the same result if you use
File=>Save As and save to a new file name choosing
the "Word document" file type?

Do you have the Preview choice selected in
File=>Properties, or are you including font and
other data in Tools=>Options=>Save?

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Why would a 77 kb file balloon to 20 MB when a 578 kb jpeg file is inserted?
More importantly, what can be done to keep the file, with the image, at a
size that can be emailed, preferably under 1 MB?

Thanks! David>>
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

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[Davidnotdave]

It worked, and now I feel kinda dumb. I thought about saving it as a doc,
but never imagined rtf format would make such a huge difference, so I didn't
try it!

I had this in rtf because I'd scanned an article and converted it to text
with OCR software, and .rtf was the default format it used, probably because
it's not Microsoft software--something else I didn't think of at the time.

Thanks, Bob!