From: "Gary Britt" 

Ah...,  then in my best Gilda Radner voice  "Never Mind".

Gary

"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
news:13js715vbgt7hloncfi1g4mksuotv0sv3a{at}4ax.com...
>
> The "feature" I was talking about was the 20k increase in the doc file
> size each time it is changed.
>
>  /m
>
> On Wed, 4 May 2005 19:35:51 -0400, "Gary Britt"

> wrote:
>
> >Word has had the ability to open and I think save RTF format since the
> >1980's and Word For Dos.  Microsoft promoted it back then as a basis for
> >document interchange between different programs.  The last few years it
has
> >really taken off because of various Web/Email uses of RTF format.
> >
> >Gary
> >(Its hard to believe how long I've been using MS Word.  I still have
> >functioning copies of both MS Word 5 for Dos and MS Word 6 for Dos on my
> >computers.  Never really used 6 as I moved to windows finally.  I still
fire
> >up Word 5 from time to time to because I had/have a specialized
> >medical/legal dictionary for Word 5.  So if I encounter a new
legal/medical
> >term not in Word 2000 spell checker and my heavily customized custom.dic
> >file, I paste the word into Word 5, spell check it with the medical/legal
> >dictionary and then put the verified correct spelling as an addition to
my
> >Word 2000 custom.dic file.)
> >
> >"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
> >news:8nli711bh9silqplhjng86nrlg7pfor8kj{at}4ax.com...
> >> We don't do any fancy Word formatting.
> >>
> >> Still, I wonder why this "feature" is in Word in
the first place.
> >>
> >>  /m
> >>
> >> On Tue, 3 May 2005 17:06:38 -0400, "Gary Britt"

> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> >I think that confirms what Ellen wrote.  If you open the
document and
do
> >> >control-a, control-c and then open a new blank document
and paste into
it
> >> >and then do a file save, it should give you the same savings as via
the
> >rtf
> >> >route, but formatting might be better preserved with copy
and paste.
RTF
> >> >doesn't support everything that Word does formatting wise.
> >> >
> >> >Gary
> >> >
> >> >"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
> >> >news:3mpf71p6uk8g6oa54a5lf4idsn6aifa888{at}4ax.com...
> >> >>
> >> >> Save to .rtf seems to help.
> >> >>
> >> >>  /m
> >> >>
> >> >> On Tue, 03 May 2005 13:55:56 -0700, Ellen K.
> >
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> >I think the "deleted" stuff is never
actually deleted, it's only
> >tagged
> >> >> >as such.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Try copy and paste from the old one to a fresh
one and modify that,
> >> >> >instead of continuing to use the same one all the time.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >On Mon, 02 May 2005 20:23:12 -0400, Mike '/m'

wrote
> >in
> >> >> >message
:
> >> >> >
> >> >> >>Two of the Software Engineers who send me a
status report each
week
> >have
> >> >> >>a problem with growing Word files.   They
seem to grow by about
> >20-30k
> >> >> >>each week, even though the status report
remains about the same
> >amount
> >> >> >>of words.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>The sequence used to write the status report
is to take last
week's
> >> >> >>report, modify the text with what is new and
save as a new
filename.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>I already checked and fast saves are
disabled.  I am not sure
where
> >else
> >> >> >>to look.  One Engineer has Office XP, the
other Office 2003.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>Any suggestions on how to control this problem?
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> /m
> >> >>
> >> >
> >>
> >
>

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