From: "Chris Robinson" 

Geo. wrote:

> does it also reduce the size if you do a "save as"?
>
> Geo.
>
> "Ellen K."  wrote in
> message news:ekr530phmh371etd2f938es453fmtj2se3{at}4ax.com...
> > 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.
> >

Thanks guys, but I've tried both these suggestions already.  I also heard
that you can reduce the size by switching the page layout to something
different like "letter" (probably the default in the US), saving
the doc, then switching back to A4 (our default over here), and saving
again.

These changes haven't made any difference though.  It's definately due to
the huge picture files in the documents.

Chris.

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