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Subject:Re: Is Microsoft Word a hog? From:"Peter Ring, PRC" <prc -at- ISA -dot- DKNET -dot- DK> Date:Sat, 21 Jun 1997 16:53:12 +1
On 19 June 1997 Carl Stieren wrote:
> I used MS Word 7 for Windows 95/NT to write my paper on single source
> documentation for SIGDOC 97. Before I inserted the graphics, the pieces
> of this document were this big:
>
> ssource.doc 37 kB
> tenchtml.gif 28 kB
> tenfm2.gif 33 kB
> tenpdf2.gif 54 kB
>
> TOTAL 152 kB
>
> When I inserted the gifs into the Word doc
> (Insert/Object/Create_From_File), guess how big the document
> became?
>
> Give up? 5.8 MB !
To my experience there is only one way to keep the size low:
When you insert the image, use (Insert/Image). In the dialogue box:
1. Check the checkbox "Link to file". This un-shades (at least in
Word 7) a _checked_ checkbox just below: "Save image in document".
2. Un-check the "Save image in document" checkbox.
It's tested - and it works!
My version of Word is Danish, so excuse me for having translated
the names of the checkboxes incorrectly back to English.
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