From: Mike '/m' 


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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