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to: Gregg N
from: Mike `/m`
date: 2005-05-03 17:00:26
subject: Re: Growing Word files

From: Mike '/m' 

On 2 May 2005 20:42:29 -0400, Gregg N  wrote:

>Mike '/m'  wrote in
>news:0sgd711a8cq76c33ub55usmas3rdknosn0{at}4ax.com:
>
>> 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
>>
>
>Is it possible they have version tracking turned on? I don't have Office
>2003 or Office XP, but on Office 2000, you would check under File,
>Versions to see what versions are stored, and you would go to Tools,
>Track Changes to turn it on or off.
>
>Gregg

Version tracking was not turned on.

 /m

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