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> Mark Emson wonders: <<Does anyone know of a fix for MS Word documents that
> just keep on growing? E.g. you create a document and save it. Its size is
> 100K Later, you open the doc again, add something and the size
> increases to
> 105K. Later still you decide to take the addition out and stick with the
> first draft but when you save it, it has grown again to 110K. WHYYYYYY!>>
> [...] I do know that using
> revision tracking also adds to the length of a file, and may leave its own
> debris behind even after you've accepted the revisions, but I haven't
> confirmed whether there's anything you can do about this.
Although I haven't tested this myself, I have heard that you can clean up a
revision tracked document by (1) accepting all revisions, (2) turning off
revision tracking, then (3) doing a "save as" on the document.
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