There's a Compress Pictures button on the Picture toolbar that will take
care of this.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"bjm" wrote in message
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Did you check the sizes of all the (new?) images?
Maybe they were still in hi-res format (lotta bytes) when you pasted them
in, even though they're the "same size" on the page? I know I've sent an
image in email & forgotten to reduce the byte-age.
bj

"Karen Woods" wrote in message
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I created a Word 2003 document of a small catalog with 50 small images in
it (1 inch approx) and the whole doc was only 5 pages at only 3.5MB. It
sent easily thru Outlook Express to my customers and everyone could open
it.

When I tried to create a supplement using the same format and only a
third of the total images and only 3 pages in length in Word2003 the size
was 15.5 MB and too large to send thru Outlook Express to anyone. I get
an error message that the document is too large for the server.

I can't see any difference in font, image sizes, etc. I cut and pasted
much of the original verbiage. I can't figure out how the bigger
document became so big when it is exactly the same formatting as the
first one and only half the content? What did I do wrong? I don't
want to send this via zip file or Adobe if I can avoid it. Should I
just start over?

Karen