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Subject:Re: Is Microsoft Word a hog? From:"Wilcox, John (Contractor)" <wilcoxj -at- WDNI -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 19 Jun 1997 08:52:00 -0700
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From: Carl Stieren
Anyone else have any solutions?
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Microsoft Word is a hog. At a state fair, I once saw a hog that weighed
2600 pounds. Word for Windows far exceeds it.
I think your problem lies in the use of GIFs. I just tried an
experiment. I started with a new doc, inserted a BMP file, and saved
the doc. Then I saved the BMP as a GIF, started another new doc,
inserted the GIF, and saved the doc. The BMP is 38 KB, and the doc
containing it is 51 KB. The GIF is only 4 KB, but the doc containing it
is 89 KB!
On the other hand, your problem have a root that you'll never dig up. I
have a user doc that is based on the same template I always use, has
only b/w BMPs, and is only about 30 pages long. Yet it is almost 3 MB.
I have been through it with a fine-toothed comb, and I cannot figure out
what makes this one doc so large.
Microsoft Word is a hog.
Regards,
John Wilcox, Documentation Specialist
Timberlands Information Services
Weyerhaeuser, WWC 2E2
Tacoma, WA 98477-0001 USA
253-924-7972 wilcoxj -at- wdni -dot- com
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