Minimising the size of Word files

[Peter Hurford]

Hi,

I have just a four-page document. The document has no graphics is only
a 2000 words (14000 characters). It does use tables a lot, and
bulleted lists. And a tiny bit of shading.

But I can't get the size of the thing to be less than 100k. This seems
amazingly large for what should be a small amount of data.

Now, to my mind 14000 characters = 14kB on disk, so the other 86kB
must be formatting information. I'm sure some of this must be
redundant.

Any ideas on how I can reduce the size of the thing?

TIA

 

[Norm Dresner]

Hi,

I have just a four-page document. The document has no graphics is only
a 2000 words (14000 characters). It does use tables a lot, and
bulleted lists. And a tiny bit of shading.

But I can't get the size of the thing to be less than 100k. This seems
amazingly large for what should be a small amount of data.

Now, to my mind 14000 characters = 14kB on disk, so the other 86kB
must be formatting information. I'm sure some of this must be
redundant.

Any ideas on how I can reduce the size of the thing?

How much editing -- inserting, deleting, moving text around -- have you
done? Word sometimes keeps an inordinate amount of old stuff. There are
ways to purge this -- IIRC you can Google for ways to purge deleted text
from a Word file in Google-groups.

Norm

 

[Buck Frobisher]

How much editing -- inserting, deleting, moving text around -- have you
done? Word sometimes keeps an inordinate amount of old stuff. There are
ways to purge this -- IIRC you can Google for ways to purge deleted text
from a Word file in Google-groups.

Norm

Did you try a save as an RTF file? It might shed a few pounds that way.