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Subject:Re: HELP! (Word/Visio File Size) From:Jo Francis Byrd <jbyrd -at- byrdwrites -dot- com> Date:Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:30:38 -0600
Wow!
Thanks for adding that warning, Maggie! I forgot to add that to my suggestion.
Jo
MAGGIE SECARA wrote:
> Everything except the last paragraph mark, or you'll just be taking everything
> with you into the new doc.
>
> Maggie Secara
> secaram -at- mainsaver -dot- com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jo Francis Byrd [SMTP:jbyrd -at- byrdwrites -dot- com]
> > Subject: Re: HELP! (Word/Visio File Size)
> >
> NEVER use fast saves! Those of us doing online help learned to disable that
> ..um...feature long ago.
>
> One thing you might try to bring the document down to a reasonable size is to
> select the entire document, copy it, then paste it into a new document, close
> the original and do a save as. This should get rid of all the extraneous junk
> the fast save accumulated.
