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08-29-2005, 05:26 AM | #1 |
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Mysterious File Size Increase
Hi, I've created a word document that contains my company's letterhead as images and distributed electronically to everyone in my company. I have receive one complaint from an employee that when she saves the document is it at about 300KB, but as soon as she types even one word and saves again, the document shoots up to about 3,000 KB. Does anyone know why that might happen? I've sent her several different versions (high res jpeg, low res jpeg, png...). Does it have anything to do with the fact that I created the document on a mac and she's using a pc? Everyone else in the company has a pc, and I haven't received any complaints. It sounds to me that it's more her computer than anything else that's causing the problem. Any ideas?
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08-29-2005, 07:23 AM | #2 |
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The first thing that comes to mind is Word is either re-rendering the image to a too-large format, or creating an undo/redo history. But the first test I would want to try is seeing how this is on another Windows computer. Not receiving complaints from others doesn't indicate much.
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I'm curious - what happens to the file size if she does a "Save As" on the document instead of "Save"?
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It does the same thing. It doesn't seem to matter if it's a "save as" or a "save."
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08-30-2005, 12:52 PM | #6 |
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This may or may not help. Do a save as to rtf format of each version, and see if these have the similar size differences. If there, you might be able to look through the rtf documents with a text editor, and see what has been added. Perhaps a zillion fonts on that system? Maybe something in binary, a macro (don't know if those show up in rtf), or something else.
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When a recent version of Word is asked to save "backward" (i.e., to be readable by an earlier version of Word), it is likely to create an RTF file that appears to be a DOC file (with a .DOC extension). If your original document came from an earlier version of Word and your recipient is using a later version, you might well get a massive increase in the file size. |
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08-31-2005, 05:12 AM | #8 |
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When I save it as .doc it is 364 KB. As an .rtf it says 1.9 MB.
When I go to the save screen it says, "The default format for Word 2004. This format is shared by Word 97 through Word 2003 for Windows, and Word 98 through Word 2004 for Mac." I have Word 2004 for Mac, and she has Word 2003 for Windows, so they should be compatible when saving and opening, right? |
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