From: Ellen K. 

Same principle.

Glad you solved the problem.   :)

On Tue, 03 May 2005 17:02:09 -0400, Mike '/m'  wrote
in message :

>
>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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