Monster File Size Increase

I created a small one page text document which takes up about 22KB. Then I
inserted a signature by clicking Insert | Picture| From File. The inserted
signature file is a .JPG of about 180KB. But the insertion causes the text
file + picture to grow to over 3MB. Why? And is there a way to avoid this
growth?

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PT

Word is very inefficient in incorporating embedded graphics. A 180K .jpg is
quite high resolution (or a very large signature). Can you insert the
signature as a link instead?
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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!
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"PT" wrote in message
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I created a small one page text document which takes up about 22KB. Then
I
inserted a signature by clicking Insert | Picture| From File. The
inserted
signature file is a .JPG of about 180KB. But the insertion causes the
text
file + picture to grow to over 3MB. Why? And is there a way to avoid
this
growth?

--
PT

I used the image resizer powertoy right click and shrank the file size from
180K to 10K. The resulting embed was much more reasonable 197K. A link
wouldn't have worked, as i was e-mailing the document.

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PT
"Charles Kenyon" wrote in
message ...
Word is very inefficient in incorporating embedded graphics. A 180K .jpg is
quite high resolution (or a very large signature). Can you insert the
signature as a link instead?
--

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!
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"PT" wrote in message
...
I created a small one page text document which takes up about 22KB. Then
I
inserted a signature by clicking Insert | Picture| From File. The
inserted
signature file is a .JPG of about 180KB. But the insertion causes the
text
file + picture to grow to over 3MB. Why? And is there a way to avoid
this
growth?

--
PT