From: "Chris Robinson" 

BTW - I forgot to add that this is Word 2000.  I've heard that Word 2002
has built-in options for compressing all images in a document.  If it comes
down to it I'll maybe get an evaluation copy to test this out?

Chris.

Chris Robinson wrote:

> 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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