From: Ellen K. 

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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