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Tips for Reducing File Size in MS Word
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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.
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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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The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
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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.
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