From: Ellen K. 

I dunno, try it.

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 06:20:21 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote in message :

>does it also reduce the size if you do a "save as"?
>
>Geo.
>
>"Ellen K." 
wrote in message
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>> One reason they are big is that all the changes ever made are still in
>> there somewhere.   (At least it was that way in Word 97.)   If you copy
>> and paste to a new .doc the new one should be much smaller.
>>
>> On 17 Feb 2004 10:52:43 -0500, "Chris Robinson"
>>  wrote in message
>> :
>>
>> >Has anyone ever found any useful software for compressing Word
>> >documents?  I'm talking about reducing the actual size of the .doc file
>> >here - not compressing it in something like Winzip.
>> >
>> >I found a program called Packword (http://www.angelfire.com/pq/wrd/)
>> >but it's not too hot on Word documents that contain images.
>> >
>> >Basically, we have some users here with Word documents over 100Mb -
>> >they then wonder why they open slowly and hang Word.
>> >
>> >So, I'm after something that will shrink the size of these docs
>> >considerably without going though each one and compressing the images
>> >one by one.  Is this possible?
>> >
>> >Thanks in advance,
>> >Chris.
>>
>

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