Re: Word weirdness

[Tom Lange <Tom_Lange -at- CCMAIL -dot- BMC -dot- COM>]

     And I thought I was the only one with that problem.  I updated my
     resume on my b: drive by changing three words. The size changed from
     17,nnn to 53, nnn when I saved it. I closed the file. Later I opened
     it, made no changes and saved it to my c: drive using a different
     name. It changed the file size back to 17,nnn on my c: drive. It
     stayed 53,nnn on my b: drive. I now have the exact same printed
     document on my b: and c: drives with different file sizes.  Really
     weird.

     tom lange
     tom_lange -at- ccmail -dot- bmc -dot- com


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Subject: Word weirdness
Author:  Janet Valade <jvalade -at- IX -dot- NETCOM -dot- COM> at unixlink
Date:    2/6/96 5:55 AM


I thought someone here might know the answer to this.  I am creating a
document in Word and happened to notice that the Word file gets grows
and shrinks in a manner unrelated to the contents of the file.  Over
the past 10 edits, the newly edited file has been the following
sequence of approximate sizes 53,000; 110,000; 125,000; 91,000; 54,000;
58,000; 99,000; 162,000; 113,000; 123,000.  Meanwhile, the actually
document has grown steadily from 12 pages to about 30 pages.  The
document is quite simple--no mass of graphics.  It has a TOC, a half a
dozen reference fields, and a few borders around paragraphs.

Does anyone know why the file gets larger and smaller this way?  Does
Word do this all the time and I just never noticed before?  I am
wondering if my machine is having some sort of problem.  Or if the
software needs some adjustment of some sort.

Janet Valade
jvalade -at- ix -dot- netcom -dot- com