Help - word document 26mb!

swebb

I've used a template and have written a document in word (the template was written by someone in another company that I'm doing the work for).

I went to email it, but it's over 26mb and I've no idea why. It's only 16 pages and these aren't full pages. The most obvious thing is images - I have just made a small flow diagram. I saved this as another version and removed the diagram. It was literally a few kb smaller.

There are a couple tables and bullets points, but nothing significant that will make the file this size (no other files embedded or anything like that).

I'm thinking that I may need to start again and do a copy and paste job (which will be a pain with the formating etc.).Anyone got any ideas for a way around it?

The original template doc is 90kb by the way.

albertross_2

are the images compressed jpg, or bmp/tiff?

swebb

they're just arrows and boxes - done in word itself (no imports).

kingmonkey

try pdf or zipping it

swebb

It should skrink a bit with a zip, but I can't understand why it's gone to that size in the first place. There's just no reason behind it.

albertross_2

copy it to another file, delete a page at a time, save it, and check the size.

krishna

Try saving it as a word 6 document, or better still word for windows 2.0. File sizes for word documents shot up after winword 2.0. Saving in an older format will usually strip out any macros etc. You may lose some of the formatting if there is anything fancy, but it's worth a try. Just remember to save it under a new filename so you don't lose your original.

swebb

krishna wrote:

Try saving it as a word 6 document, or better still word for windows 2.0. File sizes for word documents shot up after winword 2.0. Saving in an older format will usually strip out any macros etc. You may lose some of the formatting if there is anything fancy, but it's worth a try. Just remember to save it under a new filename so you don't lose your original.

This reduced it to 600k! Thanks for that. Might have been the template, I guess.