[frankthetank966]

Does anyone have any tips for reducing a file size in MS Word? I've conducted several Google searches and it seems as though most of them apply to reducing the pictures. However, I do not have many pictures in my file but rather tables. Also, some of the hints seem as though they are oly available on Windows.

[P]

There is an old bug in OLE that MS sort of fixed with Office 2007 on Windows - 13 years after introducing it. The problem is that if you copy a big picture, such as a JPEG photo, and paste it into Office, it also stores an uncompressed full size preview as a bitmapped image (BMP). The workaround on Windows is to use Insert -> as image instead of pasting, which works around the bug. I once received a 137 MB Powerpoint in the mail from a certain manager who knew he'd get chewed out but didn't want to bother splitting it. I recompressed it and sent it back - 600 kB. It's that bad. Even if you only have a few pictures, it's worth checking for that.

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Originally Posted by P 

There is an old bug in OLE that MS sort of fixed with Office 2007 on Windows - 13 years after introducing it. The problem is that if you copy a big picture, such as a JPEG photo, and paste it into Office, it also stores an uncompressed full size preview as a bitmapped image (BMP). The workaround on Windows is to use Insert -> as image instead of pasting, which works around the bug. I once received a 137 MB Powerpoint in the mail from a certain manager who knew he'd get chewed out but didn't want to bother splitting it. I recompressed it and sent it back - 600 kB. It's that bad. Even if you only have a few pictures, it's worth checking for that.

Could be the same issue, but I can remember word files suddenly ballooning to some ridiculous size. All I would do is select all and copy and paste into a new doc. Makes no sense but it worked.