Large Word doc size

This is my first request for help so please be gentle!

I am using Word 2004 v11.2 on a 2005 pre-Intel G5 iMac (OSX v10.4.7). I
am an experienced Word user. We use Word primarily for building
participant worksbooks for our workshops. These contain tables, text,
images (pasted from Powerpoint as pictures - not linked), a watermark,
colour and shading (mainly in the tables).

We are building a new workshop and the participant's workbook has
suddenly blown out to a surprising 28MB in size. I have tried the old
tricks to reduce the size: 'save as' on top of the original, removing
some of the larger size images, removing the watermark but nothing
seems to make a substantial difference to the overall file size.

My issue with the size is that it is now impossible to email which I
would like to be able to do again. Our work-around has been to utilise
the .Mac server (public folder, password protected). These documents
are copyright. The review team are all on separate continents (Africa,
north America and Australia). Two use Mac and one is still using PC.

Any suggestions would be welcomed.

Thank you
Mark

Jean-Guy
Thu Jun 29 08:55:36 CDT 2006

robilliards@bigpond.com was telling us:
robilliards@bigpond.com nous racontait que :

> This is my first request for help so please be gentle!
>
> I am using Word 2004 v11.2 on a 2005 pre-Intel G5 iMac (OSX v10.4.7).
> I am an experienced Word user. We use Word primarily for building
> participant worksbooks for our workshops. These contain tables, text,
> images (pasted from Powerpoint as pictures - not linked), a watermark,
> colour and shading (mainly in the tables).
>
> We are building a new workshop and the participant's workbook has
> suddenly blown out to a surprising 28MB in size. I have tried the old
> tricks to reduce the size: 'save as' on top of the original, removing
> some of the larger size images, removing the watermark but nothing
> seems to make a substantial difference to the overall file size.

Has the document itself bloated, but not the template, or has the document
bloated because the template bloated?
If the latter, see:
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/macrosvba/TemplateBloat.htm

If that is not the case, has the document been passed around, or is one
person responsible for editing it after receiving bits from the different
review team members?
Can the increase in size be pinpointed to a particular moment (e.g. after
adding a particular bit, or after it was saved or particular machine, etc.)?

> north America and Australia). Two use Mac and one is still using PC.

As if the PC guy was from the dark ages! ;-)
Actually, swapping documents between different OS like this probably does
not help.

Have you tried posting on a mac group?
microsoft.public.mac.office.word

--
Salut!
_______________________________________
Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
jmarcilREMOVE@CAPSsympatico.caTHISTOO
Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org

robilliards
Tue Jul 04 21:14:12 CDT 2006

Thanks Jean-Guy - I didn't realise I had posted in the worng group.
Apologies for the mix up.

cheers
Mark

Jean-Guy Marcil wrote:
> robilliards@bigpond.com was telling us:
> robilliards@bigpond.com nous racontait que :
>
> > This is my first request for help so please be gentle!
> >
> > I am using Word 2004 v11.2 on a 2005 pre-Intel G5 iMac (OSX v10.4.7).
> > I am an experienced Word user. We use Word primarily for building
> > participant worksbooks for our workshops. These contain tables, text,
> > images (pasted from Powerpoint as pictures - not linked), a watermark,
> > colour and shading (mainly in the tables).
> >
> > We are building a new workshop and the participant's workbook has
> > suddenly blown out to a surprising 28MB in size. I have tried the old
> > tricks to reduce the size: 'save as' on top of the original, removing
> > some of the larger size images, removing the watermark but nothing
> > seems to make a substantial difference to the overall file size.
>
> Has the document itself bloated, but not the template, or has the document
> bloated because the template bloated?
> If the latter, see:
> http://word.mvps.org/faqs/macrosvba/TemplateBloat.htm
>
> If that is not the case, has the document been passed around, or is one
> person responsible for editing it after receiving bits from the different
> review team members?
> Can the increase in size be pinpointed to a particular moment (e.g. after
> adding a particular bit, or after it was saved or particular machine, etc.)?
>
> > north America and Australia). Two use Mac and one is still using PC.
>
> As if the PC guy was from the dark ages! ;-)
> Actually, swapping documents between different OS like this probably does
> not help.
>
> Have you tried posting on a mac group?
> microsoft.public.mac.office.word
>
> --
> Salut!
> _______________________________________
> Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
> jmarcilREMOVE@CAPSsympatico.caTHISTOO
> Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org