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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? |
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Crazy File Size Increases
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. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Dan Howard" wrote in message ... 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? |
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