Bloated MS Word File?

[Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>]

Susan Jelus wondered: <<We have a problem with a bloated MS Word 2003  
file.  We have tried all the standard tricks, such as deleting the  
last paragraph symbol and copying everything into a new Word file.   
The documentation has about 40 screen captures in it.  But is at  
least 4 times the size of other, similar files.>>

A few additional thoughts: Check the Save tab of the Options dialog  
to ensure that "Fast Saves" has been disabled. That leads to file  
bloat. Open the File menu and select Versions; if any versions have  
been saved, save a backup copy of the file (in case you should need  
those versions in the future), then delete them.

If the manuscript has been edited using revision tracking, then  
revisions of the figures would also be tracked. Select all the text  
and "accept all" revisions from the Reviewing toolbar.

If the graphics were imported in a previous version of Word, they may  
not have been converted efficiently into the new version of Word, so  
deleting and then reimporting all the graphics should help.

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