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Subject:Re: Word files: memory From:Richard Elsberry <richard -dot- elsberry -at- SCORECAST -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 12 Oct 1998 12:51:56 -0500
I find image imbedding in Word to be one of it's most frustrating and
mysterious quarks. My reaction to the original post was that you may
have an imbedded a JPEG or other image file. It has been my experience
that a 300kb file can easily grow to over 20 MB and even stripping away
the image files, in some cases, will not reduce it. There is the option
to link an image file but it doesn't seem to matter.
Thanks, Richard
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Ion [SMTP:soundy -at- SOUNDY -dot- ML -dot- ORG]
> Sent: Monday, October 12, 1998 12:40 PM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Re: Word files: memory
>
> On Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:05:52 +0100, Jennifer O Neill wrote:
>
> >I have 5 Word95 files, each containing the same info but in different
> >languages. But 2 of the files are twice the size as the others.
> >What's happening? I've tried resaving the 2 files under different
> >names but no effect. Thanks.
>
> Are you using FastSaves? That feature tends to grow files VERY fast,
> since
> instead of re-writing the whole file to disk on save, it simply tacks
> whatever changes you've made onto the end of the file. If you save
> often, or
> have autosave enabled, the file can balloon ridiculously. Extreme
> case: my
> brother-in-law created a 5-page business prospectus for his company,
> with
> less than 1MB worth of embedded JPEG images. The final file was over
> 35MB in
> size. I disabled fastsaves and re-saved it as a file just barely over
> 1MB.
>
>
> Your friend and mine,
> Matt
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