normal.dot takes 27mb memory...

I have a problem with a normal.dot that takes 27mb RAM. It contains a lot of
code and it has both forms and a menu with templates (from a server). Should
it really take so much RAM and does anyone have any ideas how I can decrease
them memoryusage!?

Doug
Fri May 27 06:34:07 CDT 2005

Going to http://word.mvps.org/Downloads/index.htm and getting the code
cleaner might help, but it sounds like you have a lot of things in
Normal.Dot that should be somewhere else - either individual templates or in
a template that you save in the Word Startup folder so that it becomes an
Add-in with the code in it available to all documents.

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"Swippe" <Swippe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a problem with a normal.dot that takes 27mb RAM. It contains a lot
>of
> code and it has both forms and a menu with templates (from a server).
> Should
> it really take so much RAM and does anyone have any ideas how I can
> decrease
> them memoryusage!?

Swippe
Fri May 27 06:48:03 CDT 2005

Thx for your advice, it might help a lot!!!!

//Swippe

"Doug Robbins" skrev:

> Going to http://word.mvps.org/Downloads/index.htm and getting the code
> cleaner might help, but it sounds like you have a lot of things in
> Normal.Dot that should be somewhere else - either individual templates or in
> a template that you save in the Word Startup folder so that it becomes an
> Add-in with the code in it available to all documents.
>
> --
> Hope this helps.
>
> Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
> services on a paid consulting basis.
>
> Doug Robbins - Word MVP
> "Swippe" <Swippe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7720CF5C-007C-439F-9B68-628FCE999156@microsoft.com...
> >I have a problem with a normal.dot that takes 27mb RAM. It contains a lot
> >of
> > code and it has both forms and a menu with templates (from a server).
> > Should
> > it really take so much RAM and does anyone have any ideas how I can
> > decrease
> > them memoryusage!?
>
>
>

Helmut
Fri May 27 07:03:52 CDT 2005

Hi everybody,

by the way, if I open a Word97 dot (1 MB)
with WordXP and save it, the size is 300 KB afterwards.

Greetings from Bavaria, Germany

Helmut Weber, MVP
"red.sys" & chr(64) & "t-online.de"
Word XP, Win 98
http://word.mvps.org/

Swippe
Fri May 27 07:47:40 CDT 2005

b.t.w. my Office-version is 2003...

"Helmut Weber" skrev:

> Hi everybody,
>
> by the way, if I open a Word97 dot (1 MB)
> with WordXP and save it, the size is 300 KB afterwards.
>
> Greetings from Bavaria, Germany
>
> Helmut Weber, MVP
> "red.sys" & chr(64) & "t-online.de"
> Word XP, Win 98
> http://word.mvps.org/
>
>
>
>

Swippe
Fri May 27 07:47:42 CDT 2005

Hello,
all helpfull folks :o) I've tried the VBA Clean but it didn't make any
difference...then I've tried to remove all forms and just save as less code
as possible but after a while the template takes about 27 RAM...should it
really be like this!? Has anyone met the same problem?!

Thx

//Swippe

"Helmut Weber" skrev:

> Hi everybody,
>
> by the way, if I open a Word97 dot (1 MB)
> with WordXP and save it, the size is 300 KB afterwards.
>
> Greetings from Bavaria, Germany
>
> Helmut Weber, MVP
> "red.sys" & chr(64) & "t-online.de"
> Word XP, Win 98
> http://word.mvps.org/
>
>
>
>

Jay
Fri May 27 09:05:21 CDT 2005

In addition to another link to the code cleaner, this article has some
useful suggestions: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/TemplateBloat.htm

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

Swippe wrote:
> Hello,
> all helpfull folks :o) I've tried the VBA Clean but it didn't make any
> difference...then I've tried to remove all forms and just save as
> less code as possible but after a while the template takes about 27
> RAM...should it really be like this!? Has anyone met the same
> problem?!
>
> Thx
>
> //Swippe
>
> "Helmut Weber" skrev:
>
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> by the way, if I open a Word97 dot (1 MB)
>> with WordXP and save it, the size is 300 KB afterwards.
>>
>> Greetings from Bavaria, Germany
>>
>> Helmut Weber, MVP
>> "red.sys" & chr(64) & "t-online.de"
>> Word XP, Win 98
>> http://word.mvps.org/

Swippe
Fri May 27 09:44:02 CDT 2005

Thank you Jay, this was realy helpfull...this decreset memory use to 19 mb
and size from 392 kb to 161kb!!!!

B.R.

Swippe

"Jay Freedman" skrev:

> In addition to another link to the code cleaner, this article has some
> useful suggestions: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/TemplateBloat.htm
>
> --
> Regards,
> Jay Freedman
> Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
>
> Swippe wrote:
> > Hello,
> > all helpfull folks :o) I've tried the VBA Clean but it didn't make any
> > difference...then I've tried to remove all forms and just save as
> > less code as possible but after a while the template takes about 27
> > RAM...should it really be like this!? Has anyone met the same
> > problem?!
> >
> > Thx
> >
> > //Swippe
> >
> > "Helmut Weber" skrev:
> >
> >> Hi everybody,
> >>
> >> by the way, if I open a Word97 dot (1 MB)
> >> with WordXP and save it, the size is 300 KB afterwards.
> >>
> >> Greetings from Bavaria, Germany
> >>
> >> Helmut Weber, MVP
> >> "red.sys" & chr(64) & "t-online.de"
> >> Word XP, Win 98
> >> http://word.mvps.org/
>
>
>

Charles
Fri May 27 12:45:29 CDT 2005

Following up on Doug Robbins' suggestions, you may want to look at
http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm for step-by-step instructions
on moving / sharing / copying / backing-up customizations including
AutoText, AutoCorrect, keyboard assignments, toolbars, macros, etc. This
shows how to create a custom global template to take some of the stuff out
of normal.dot.

Also, make sure that you have Fast Saves and Versions turned off.
--

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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"Swippe" <Swippe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7720CF5C-007C-439F-9B68-628FCE999156@microsoft.com...
>I have a problem with a normal.dot that takes 27mb RAM. It contains a lot
>of
> code and it has both forms and a menu with templates (from a server).
> Should
> it really take so much RAM and does anyone have any ideas how I can
> decrease
> them memoryusage!?