From: Mike '/m' 


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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