From: Gregg N 

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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