From: Douglas Smith 

Or fast saves -- I believe fast saves will keep adding the changes onto the
end of the document without changing previous text.

 - Doug.


In article ,
gregg{at}invalid.invalid says...
> 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
>

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