From: "Gary Britt" 

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
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>
> 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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