Crazy File Size Increases

I am editing a novel in Word 2000 (9.0.2812) - it's about
90k words long and normally a 600K file. It seems that two
separate operations have each turned a 600k file into a
2.4M file - first, a couple of global Find/Replace
operations (affecting several hundred words each), and
second, on a new 600k version, a series of tracked version
changes, highlighted and then accepted (a manual Undo of
the Find/Replace operation.
When I copy the text from the bloated file into a new doc,
I get back to reasonable file size, but I lose all my
formatting.
Are both Find/Replace and Change Tracking separately
responsible for the huge discrepancies in file size?
Is there an easier fix to trim down the file without losing
all my formatting?

In combination, you've discovered that they will bloat file sizes.

You shouldn't lose your formatting doing a copy and paste. To make this work
best, do your formatting using styles and have the same style definitions in
both documents.
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Charles Kenyon

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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
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See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Dan Howard" wrote in message
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I am editing a novel in Word 2000 (9.0.2812) - it's about
90k words long and normally a 600K file. It seems that two
separate operations have each turned a 600k file into a
2.4M file - first, a couple of global Find/Replace
operations (affecting several hundred words each), and
second, on a new 600k version, a series of tracked version
changes, highlighted and then accepted (a manual Undo of
the Find/Replace operation.
When I copy the text from the bloated file into a new doc,
I get back to reasonable file size, but I lose all my
formatting.
Are both Find/Replace and Change Tracking separately
responsible for the huge discrepancies in file size?
Is there an easier fix to trim down the file without losing
all my formatting?